As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.

The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if ."

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.