Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?

What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?

...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The definers want the power to name. And the defined are now taking that power away from them.