Quotes

"Where are the evolved, poised-for-light adepts who will assume the task of administering power in a human interest, of redefining power in a human interest, of redefining power as being not the privilege or class right to define, deform, and dominate but as the human responsibility to define, transform and develop?"

“Through writing I attempt celebrate the tradition of resistance, attempt to tap Black potential, ad try to join the chorus of voices that argues that exploitation and misery are neither inevitable nor necessary.”

"Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and interpretations, the clutter that blinds, that disguises that underlying, all-encompassing design. . ."

"[W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid."

"Anyone with a greater capacity for love than I is a valuable teacher."

"When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did."

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