I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.