It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.

Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

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

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

The concept of physical beauty as a virtue is one of the dumbest, most pernicious and destructive ideas of the Western world, and we should have nothing to do with it.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.