The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.
Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I’ve seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.
Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.
Old folks are the nation.
Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.
My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.
When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn’t come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth ’bout how to take over the whole house?
When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.
Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.