“Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.”

“You don't need to belong to any particular class or ethnicity to be a nerd, but some ethnic stereotypes are nerdier than others.”

“A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.”

“Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.”

“I'm more afraid of life than death”

“Since White America refuses to see its past, they can't really see me either. Add to that a little of Madame C.J.s magic and watch me go invisible. Watch me step outside of history. Assimilation as revolution. That's one thing that most of us know that white folks don't. Race doesn't really exist. Culture? Ethnicity? Sure. Class too. But race is just a bunch of rules meant to keep us on the bottom. Race is a strategy. The rest is just people acting playing roles.”