Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.