Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like it or not. Never, never give up, and the world will reward you beyond your wildest dreams.

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Racism and hatred are synonymous.