I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

He said, 'Always. Always.

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it.

I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom.