Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.

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.

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

Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.