To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I'm going to quit writing.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.