"Sound is the connecting energy to our African past. When thrown into the Middle Passage and the babble of languages, …"

"How do I treat this character, given my sensitivity toward being a woman and then my ire being a black person — tryin…"

"Because we might not get to truth, we might not get to justice…As, certainly, neither of those really emerged in this…"

"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."