Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.