I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or colors or rocks.

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

Traveling is like dancing lessons from God.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room in your fortified compound.

The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.