Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Well, sometime Mr —— git on me pretty hard. I have to talk to Old Maker. But he my husband. I shrug my shoulders. This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways. You ought to bash Mr —— head open, she say. Think bout heaven later.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.

Abortion is an act of self-defense.