Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.

My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

Embrace the pain, Sharum.

Stretch out your tongue and let the words drip on the world like savage shooting muses, never, never to be forgotten, if once fallen on earth, they stand in glittery defloration.

The bell seemed to have set off analarm in my brain, and I glimpsed at the mysterious envelope on my desk.There was another item I should’ve gotten from my single-shoe salesman.

On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.

Miss, n. A title which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market.

No one's ever called me anything but 'Arne.'

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.