Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.

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

But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.

When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.