You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.