If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.