The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.