I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
America is racial. America was founded on race. Race is America. The code name for America is 'race. '
A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.
I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.
People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.
If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.
We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them graham crackers.
The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.
The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.
The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.