Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.

Love is divine only and difficult always.

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.