You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.

The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

Occasionally, as children, we might figure out how to call somebody a name, and they would figure out how to call us. But it wasn't - it was so light. It was so fluffy. I didn't really have a strong awareness of segregation and the separation of races until I left Lorain, Ohio.

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.

Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.