Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.

When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

It's too easy to say this or that is "race," and that has been a vehicle for an incredible amount of wrong in the world.

Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.