Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.

"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both "black" and therefore deserve a certain kind of interaction with the world, they make race. I can't take them seriously.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

I like to be depressing. I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy. You know that line in the Declaration of Independence, "the pursuit of happiness"? I've come to think that it has no meaning at all. You cannot pursue happiness. And to think that this bad little sentence has determined our lives.