Novelist

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Mimpi hanyalah mimpi buruk dengan lipstik.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

Ada perbedaan antara menulis untuk hidup dan menulis untuk hidup. Jika Anda menulis untuk mencari nafkah, Anda membuat kompromi yang sangat besar .... Jika Anda menulis seumur hidup, Anda akan bekerja keras; Anda akan melakukan apa yang jujur, bukan yang menguntungkan.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

Apa bedanya jika hal yang Anda takuti itu nyata atau tidak?

Kamu bebas. Tidak ada dan tidak ada yang wajib menyelamatkan Anda selain Anda.

I like marriage. The idea.

Saya memberi tahu siswa saya, 'Ketika Anda mendapatkan pekerjaan yang telah Anda latih dengan sangat baik, ingatlah bahwa pekerjaan Anda yang sebenarnya adalah jika Anda bebas, Anda perlu membebaskan orang lain. Jika Anda memiliki kekuatan, tugas Anda adalah memberdayakan orang lain.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.