And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.