I've traveled all over the world, but I don't think there is any place better than Texas.
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work. . . It's much more important to write than to be written about.
For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
There is always something left to love.
Time was not passing. . . it was turning in a circle.
When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
It's good to just smile and go on with your day.
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses. . . . I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.