You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.
You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.
Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one.
I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.