Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

I used to dream militant dreams of taking over america to show these whitefolks how it should be done i used to dream radical dreams of blowing everyone away with my perceptive powers of correct analysis i even used to think that i'd be the one to stop the riot and negotiate the peace then i awoke & dug that if i dreamed natural dreams of being a natural woman doing what a woman does when she's natural i would have a revolution.

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.