Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

No man however great is greater than his people

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.