Whiteness is filthy.

True poetry is embarrassing.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.

Whiteness–the whole constellation of practices, beliefs, attitudes, emotions that are mixed up in being white–is the problem. Whiteness is degraded and depraved[…] To the degree that we accept any of the meaning that the dominant society gives to whiteness, we white people are degraded and depraved.