Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

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

Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best.

The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.

They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.