Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

Assumptions are dangerous things.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Laughter is more serious than tears.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Love is never any better than the lover.