Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.