In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.