The original crime of niggers and lesbians is that they prefer themselves.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.