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Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.

Looking at each other like, What the fuck's going on here? We big-time undercover supercops.

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

All Stories are True.

I don't make that hard and fast distinction between political and nonpolitical writing. I write about what bothers me.

I have written about the women around me. My ancestors, my relatives, lovers. It was a way of trying to make it all make sense.

I wish I had time to listen to music more.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.