Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information.

Political doesn't necessarily mean you have an agenda.

When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.

Anger... it's a paralyzing emotion... you can't get anything done.

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