Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious

In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.