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

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

When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?

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

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.