There is nothing a person can't do, and there should be nothing a human being didn't care about. It was the most positive encouragement I could have hoped for.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

You are only free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

He watched her every move and when she left the room, his eyes allowed her reluctantly to go.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

I commend lovers, I am enheartened by lovers, I am encouraged by their courage and inspired by their passion.