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 never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.

I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.