I don't like the way question marks look. They're really ugly. They look like blots. At some other point in my life, I might have disliked them because I never knew how to properly apply them. Also commas, and whether they were outside the quote or inside the quote - that all seemed like an unnecessary pain in the ass.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

There is no American history. There is no French history. There is no John Wideman. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

I don't tell everything. I want the reader to have the feeling that maybe they know the whole truth, but they don't.

If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.