Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.

Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

It is quite possible to speed up the healing process to the part of the body that is injured. This all has to do with the release of chi.

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally , forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Maybe there will always be a market for the regular comic books because you can read [them] at your own pace. You can save them, collect them, [then] go back and read them again.

If you ask for an opinion, expect to receive one, and don't make fun of it.