26 Quotes by Bebe Moore Campbell

I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

You live your life between your ears.

When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.