I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.