The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

Creation is everything you do. Make something.

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

our dreams draw blood from old sores.

I've never thought of leaving the South, never.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

my spirit is too ancient to understand the separation of soul & gender