Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

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

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

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