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.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.