The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality..

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to rev….

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning f….

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion o….

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity..

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmosphe….

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there..

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living..

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible..

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life..

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me..

For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplic….

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation..

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relati….

Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . ..

The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face..

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives..

Revolution begins with the self, in the self..

Not all speed is movement..

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream..