Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

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

And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

A lot is yet to be enjoyed. I'd like to stomp grapes for wine. Go to Antarctica. Have dinner with Venus Williams who is the greatest tennis player ever.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.

Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.