"When I think of the American dream, I think of exclusivity, to be quite honest with you. I think that dream, just lik…"

"If you can just first maintain your own humanity, reify your own personal worth. You then flow into the system as an …"

"When I think of the American dream, that’s what I think of something that is manufactured, something that is ethereal…"

"Perhaps of the books that we were reading, the one that really stands out the most about the American dream is The St…"

"They are acceptable. The Colin Powells of America. It was such a phenomenon to me, that Colin Powell was so deeply lo…"

"There are some young Black women, however, that I particularly want to talk about, younger than I in any case, young …"

"To me, the great writers who come from ethnic minorities writing in English come from America. I think the deep, the …"

"There is no way you can say that realism is the only literature going. I mean, most of our best novelists are not eve…"

"I think there's something very special about women writers, black women writers in America and those that I know of i…"

"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"