See, that's the problem with putting too much stock in the old days. You remember all the GOOD stuff, but you forget about the time you got spanked by your best friend's mom.

Soon he would be able to touch her, to feel the warmth of her blood. When the time came, nothing would stop him.

When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.

There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.

Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.

You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

When I breathe, This sound in my chest Lonelier than the winter wind