I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?
I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
Love will make a way out of no way
Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.
I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.
When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!
The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.
If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.
The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.
