If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.

God made men by baking them in an oven, but he forgot about the first batch, and that's how Black people were born. And then he was so anxious about the next batch, he took them out of the oven too soon, so that's how White people were made. But the third batch he let cook until they were golden-golden-golden, and, honey, that's you and me.

I can't do a linear novel. I'm just going to write what I need to write.

So how are you supposed to learn how to drive with this guy yapping at you? My brothers were the ones who got to practice. So when you have to get on the expressway, you're afraid. That's what I think. That's why I take back routes on two-lane highways.

Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.

How can art make a difference in the world?