God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.
As a boy, I never knew where my mother was from---where she was born, who her parents were. When I asked she'd say, God made me. When I asked if she was white, she'd say, I'm light-skinned, and change...
For one thing you learns when you is a girl is that most women's hearts is full of secrets.
Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.
It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free? Th...
But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That’s what counts.
But as a kid, I preferred the black side, and often wished that Mommy had sent me to black schools like my friends. Instead I was stuck at that white school, P.S. 138, with white classmates who were c...
This is what happens when a boy becomes a man. You get stupider.
It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment.
If you think looking at three hundred boiling-mad, half-cocked Virginians holding every kind of breechloader under God’s sun staring back at you with murder in their eyes is a ticket to redemption, yo...
I asked her if I was black or white. She replied You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.
God I am looking for the one thing I have never felt but once, and I would walk through heaven and earth to find it, if he would but let me find him, so that I could feel it; and if I were to feel it...
Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn’t matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.
They’ll pull the trigger and tell the hammer to hurry.
She wore a flowered blue dress of the type whores naturally favored, and that thing was so tight that when she moved, the daisies got all mixed up with the azaleas. She walked like a warm room full of...
James Brown hid everything, and in the game of instant information he lost big-time, because the information machine turns a truth into a lie and a lie into the truth, transforms superstitions and ste...
But all your 'sorrys' are gone when a person dies... That's why you have to say all your 'sorrys' and 'I love yous' while a person is living, because tomorrow isn't promised.
See, a marriege needs love. And God. And a little money. That's all.
I was so sorry, deep in my heart I was sorry, but all your sorrys are gone when a person dies. She was gone. Gone. That's why you have to say all your sorrys and I love yous while a person is living,...