"Original thinking migrates each day in search..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Life loves the person who dares to live it.”

“Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.”

“If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.”

“I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.”

“All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.”

“Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.”

“If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.”

“I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.”

“Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.”