The black church will accept anybody.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's done. I just go to the next thing. I don't complain, I don't go to - I pick my battles very, very judiciously, and I just assume that there's good in the heart of everybody.

Some things in this world just ain't meant to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.