All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to be noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It's a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And t…

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

Im glad that you're older than me Makes me feel important and free Is that make you smile, isnt that me?!

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and re…

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. [citation needed]