Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.

You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.

... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why, 'says I, I've got prayers to sell.

Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.

She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.

Both of them loved the earth and the things that grew in it.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

It is so much easier to honour the leaders who are honourable.

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.

Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

When you're a rapper, just a rapper, you have to kind of settle for whatever comes your way - if a beat is hot, you wanna rap on it, period.

You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.

I believe the enemy has numerous tactics to keep us from praying because he knows that it is the greatest way for the kingdom of God to expand.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

I got my own way of praying.