The real writer is one who really writes.

Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

History is a game played backwards only.

Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.

Depressions, local and larger strikes, boom times, wars, repressions, all impact a life as do epidemics such as AIDS and pollution that may take years off a person's life. We all, whether we like it or not and whether we acknowledge it or not, are impacted by the racial attitudes we carry within us, and experience in some form every time we turn on the television, the radio, go to a movie, read a magazine or a newspaper, or walk down the street.

The work of the world is common as mud.