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

Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.

I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.