Children Are A Quality Of Life ...

The Africans Know I'm Not An African. I'm An American.

It Bums Me Out Tremendously What The Church Has Become, And If It's Got Me Bummed, Imagine What Jesus Christ Must Be Feeling.

Thank You, God, Because I Am Lucky. Also Let's Face It, It Turns Out I'm Black. And I'm Having A Career Quite Different From Lots Of People, So I Feel Doubly Lucky.

[on Writing To Alice Walker, Author Of The Color Purple:] I Told Her I Would Play A Venetian Blind, Dirt On The Floor, Anything.

It Never Occurs To Me That There Are Things I Can't Do.