"My life's work has been to go around America with a tape recorder trying to become America word for word. And I've me…"

"…White racism is about people who don’t feel so bad about fixed things. But white racism is a fixed thing, and it is …"

"The words are verbatim. The words are exactly what the people said. When I was a girl, my grandfather said, “If you s…"

"Shatter her beauteous breast ye may; The Spirit of England none can slay! Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul's, — Deem…"

"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."

"this country might have been a pio neer land once. but. there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a differ…"

"I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't politically defend it."