The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.

There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

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

I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me.

When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life - I don't recommend this by the way - and you pick up, oh, what'd you do that for? Why didn't you understand this?