Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave,'' he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that char...
Gershom: [Moses and Sephora are now parents] Did the little boy die in the desert, my father? Moses: No. God brought Ishmael and his mother Hagar into a good land. Gershom: The same God who lives on the mountain? Moses: It may be, my son. Sephora: Mo...
Dorothy: My goodness, what a fuss you're making! Well naturally, when you go around picking on things weaker than you are. Why, you're nothing but a great big coward! Cowardly Lion: [crying] You're right, I am a coward! I haven't any courage at all. ...
New York always feels more like my hometown than the places where I actually grew up (which weren't far from New York), perhaps because I did my artistic "growing up" while working in this crazy, wonderful city back in my twenties. Although I love th...
How many of us would ever explore the dark extremities of our own humanity were we not from time to time thrown into them involuntarily? 'Necessity is laid upon me,' wrote the apostle Paul; and mostly it is only of necessity, through the inescapabili...
A figure stood at the far end, cloaked in black and beckoning him.
Black as night and as beautiful as forever.
Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.
Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.
We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.
I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.
Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep.
Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.
No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.
No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.
The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.
If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization.
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
