The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

What did I do? I walked into a drugstore to look for some mints, and then I walked out. What was wrong with that? I didn't kill Mr. Nesbitt.