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

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

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.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

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.

I like marriage. The idea.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.