"I'll know how to die with courage that is easier than living."

"Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!"

"They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same."

"The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength."

"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

"There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing."

"I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories."

"Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart."