"The world is not going to be saved by another book."

"I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness."

"The people who are trying to make the world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?"

"I'm a black writer. I'm not a writer who happens to be black."

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