Let your face speak what's in your heart. When my kids walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

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.

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

Definitions belong to the definer, not the defined.

Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For me it's just too easy, if you hate your country or your wife, so you kill them. You can't think through that, you can't feel through that, you can't do the work. And now we have guns. Solution? I don't think so.