I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn’t really part of it.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.