Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.

You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

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

When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.

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.

they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly