Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? - The Color Purple, 1982.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.