Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.
Memory in America suffers amnesia.
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.
Linear thinking is patriarchal.
Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.