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

What is happening to the daughters of the yam? Seem like they just don't know how to draw up the powers from the deep like before. Not full sunned and sweet anymore.

I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.

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

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.