I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays

What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*