When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

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.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

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

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.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .