One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

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 atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

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

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

TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND WHOLE

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

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.

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.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

My inheritance is grief and sunlight and the ability to choose which to hold on to.

No one had ever accused Koko of being naughty. Perverse, perhaps, or arrogant, or despotic. But naughtiness was beneath his dignity.

We're not polishing fine china here.

Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

I hate being an actor, they dress you and put on your makeup and you just feel like a little baby.

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

The perennial gale of creative destruction

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.