To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

Don't be telling me--can't be done. That's some god damney white talk, that's what that is.

You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.

I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.

At heart we are all powerful, beautiful, and capable of changing the world with our bare hands.

You stole my heart the day we met, and I've never asked for it back.

The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.

For Sleeping or Jumping couldn’t be a better band name at a better time in music.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.

What's the use of running when you are on the wrong road?