- On personal power: A grown woman did not need safety or its dreams. She was the safety she longed for.
- On love: Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
- On mothering: Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
- On mothering: A daughter is a woman that cares about where she came from and takes care of them that took care of her.
- On truth: Not knowing was hard; knowing was harder.
- [referring to Bill Clinton] This is our first "black" President. "Blacker" than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of "blackness": single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's- and junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.
- The company that published me had published two recordings of my books. And I didn't listen to them. They were [read by] great black actresses. And then I listened to one and I said, 'That's not right', meaning it wasn't the right sound, it wasn't the rhythm... pauses... little things that only I would recognize. So since I was so picky, they said, 'Well, Ok'. So I did them all... because of that... because of the sound.
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