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.

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.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

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.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Medication without explanation is obscene.