The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

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.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

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