If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.

You write in order to change the world.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.