I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

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

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

No one needs to teach you to be mean; we need to be taught to be kind.