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

Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

A son ain't what a woman say. A son is what a man do.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.