I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself...
In the flush of love's lightwe dare be braveAnd suddenly we seethat love costs all we areand will ever be.
To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of...
It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.
Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my p...
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel bec...
I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.
I'll never know why it was important to him that the couple (he said it later that he'd never seen them before) would take a picture of the whole Mr. Johnson back to Little Rock.He must have been tire...
I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.