"It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom."

"I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too."

"The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account."

"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."

"Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny."

"Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual."

"Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity."

"Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free."