I'm the most stubborn person I know.

...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

I just really love people a lot. I really love them.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.