I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

I can't write what I don't believe in.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.