Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

I'm losing the definition now of politics. I sort of don't know what that is anymore. People say politically correct, I don't know what that means. I know what they think they mean.

To be given dominion over another is a hard thing; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing.

Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

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

Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.