I don't very often read novels.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.

I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.

I don't very often read novels.

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.