You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.