Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

Black love is black wealth

My work is a part of me and I know it. I have no reason to try to pick one part of me out from the rest. I only see my work, or rather I should say I see my work only telling my part of the human experience.

If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.