Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.