Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.