How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody fly with all that [stuff]. Wanna fly, you got to give up the [stuff] that weighs you down.’ The peacock jumped onto the hood of the Buick and once more spread its tail, sending the flashy Buick into oblivion.

He said, 'Always. Always.

A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more

guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.