The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

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.

We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.