“Violence is Black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years worth of education.”

“The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.”

“There is no time or years only different dimensions.”

“I was a normal eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting.”

“It was possible for couples to not discover that they are in profound disagreement over the very fundamentals of life until ten or twenty years of marriage.”

“I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.”

“His body trembled against hers. She held on, afraid that if she let go he'd be gone forever.”