Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.