 I like marriage. The idea. |
| I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. |
| There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how. |
| 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. |
| Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader. |
| In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. |
| For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event. |
| 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. |
| Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. |
| Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. |
| Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. |
