Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.