In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

It would be ten years before they saw each other again, and their meeting would be thick with birds.

In Tar Baby, the classic concept of the individual with a solid, coherent identity is eschewed for a model of identity which sees the individual as a kaleidoscope of heterogeneous impulses and desires, constructed from multiple forms of interaction with the world as a play of difference that cannot be completely comprehended.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.

Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.