I guess that’s the way secrets are. They’re only heavy when you’re holding them. As soon as you let go, the significance of keeping those secrets hidden blows away and everything falls into place.

The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

I don’t think it’s right that I’m part of the problem. I can’t be part of the solution if I’m part of the problem

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Don't blame yourself for other people's choices, including their choice of unhappiness.

Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January [2017] and that might be an interesting story to tell.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man.

Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.