Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician.

The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.