"I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered."
"But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive."
"If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind."
"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."