Occupation: Writer Birth: April 11, 1949
Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I have to tell stories, that stories are the….
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understo….
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of b….
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities de….
Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me..
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside..
Why write stories? To join the conversation..
Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked f….
The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing..
I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means..
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself compl….
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open..
Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form..
I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft..
my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying..
Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand..
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Ch….
There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or his….
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies..
For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I….
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censo….