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How hard it must be to keep fighting for a dream when that dream is probably a mirage.
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Writers, naturally, dream of becoming authors. Authors dream of writing a bestseller. Bestselling authors want to write more bestsellers. And everyone hopes for big prizes. Why? Because we believe in magic.
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Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.
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When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death!
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“I suppose there are two worlds-the small, protected one we carve out for ourselves, where we fret about a whole lot of nothing, and the other world, the real one, which comes knocking at the door, demanding to be let in and given a seat.”
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...one person can come along and change your life, and that being a misfit, as I was, doesn't mean you won't find friends and your place in the world.
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There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.
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...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.
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When you're in a train and it breaks down, well, there you is. But when you're in a plane and it breaks down, there you AIN'T.
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...I could see the genius in allowing future to evolve. You could create momentum. You could launch something and see where it goes. You couldn't line everything up, like so many dominoes, and make everything fall into place.
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All I ever wanted in my life was to be treated as an individual. I have succeeded, to some extent. At least I'm sure that in the Lord's eyes, I am an individual. I am not a "colored" person, or a "Negro" person, in God's eyes. I am just me! The Lord won't hold it against me that I'm colored because He made me that way! He thinks I am beautiful! And so do I, even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful