Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

There are things you stand up for because it’s right.

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

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.

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.