Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.

I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.