[W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid. |
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. |
I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves |
My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on. |
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. |
Revolution begins with the self, in the self. |
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. |
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. |
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. |
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. |
Writing, like dreams, confronts, pushes you up against the evasions, self-deceptions, investments in opinions and interpretations, the clutter that blinds, that disguises that underlying, all-encompassing design. . . |