"There is a saying that an injustice to one is an injustice to all. No one is truly equal and free until everyone is e…"

"My primary identity as a kid was being rejected by American society—because you’re from another country, you can’t po…"

"A lot of Asian American parents are sort of like, Oh, Why’d you stick your neck out? You’re really going to get—you’l…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."

"For we Americans, though we are the most restless race in the world, with the possible exception of the Bedouins, alm…"

"Chicago is stupefying. It knows no rules, and I know none by which to judge it. It stands apart from all the cities i…"

"Kansas used to believe in Populism and free silver. It now believes in hot summers and a hot hereafter."