Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen.

I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.

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