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" If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. "

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" I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about. "

" If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. "

" The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. "

" Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. "

" I like marriage. The idea. "

" Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. "

" When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same. "

" The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book. "

" I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. "

" Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. "

" At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. "

" There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. "

" Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. "

" Make a difference about something other than yourselves. "

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" I get angry about things, then go on and work. "

" My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children. "

" Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. "

" If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. "

" Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. "

" As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. "

" No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything. "

" I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it. "

" We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. "

" Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. "

" Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. "

" Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. "

" The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. "

" Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. "