"The conversation makes me crazy, and I haven’t been in very many places where I have had conversations with people of…"

"Almost always when I write, the characters and the story dictate the structure, and I don’t know what it will be unti…"

"I’ve found that there’s this idea of what a black experience is, and because I write what’s outside of what’s been al…"

"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."

"Got me mad as shit (yeah), so I slapped the bitch."