I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.