One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams.

I really dislike it when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

I'm still divided in my principles and what I think is right and what I'm actually able to do, whether talking about writing or being a citizen or being a husband or being a father. And I'm trying to get better.

I can't pretend that I did one really awful thing - I took a bite out of the apple but now I'm never going to sin again.