“Die knowing something. You're not here long.”

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”

“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”

“Georgia had felt the colours and the rain, but she would not miss here. And there was something lost. The now-ness of things. It was not pretty.”

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

“It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period”

“Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.”