No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

I’m mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can’t even bring themselves to talk.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

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.