I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.”
“In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.”