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

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

Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

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

The race thing is sort of a misnomer. It's just the human race, right? That's it. The rest of it, and racism, is socially constructed. Nobody is born racist, no one. What happens is other things that are usually based on power, money, feeling good about yourself, or bad about yourself, those things play into hating other people for whatever reason.

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