Evil is just sort of ultimately boring. The good thing is just complicated. It's more provocative to me and more stimulating to me.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.

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