Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

Only love with its science makes us so innocent.

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

I know how you feel. But people can't surpass their true design. Our talents, our gifts. All programmed into us from the start. I know this because since birth... I was made to destroy.

Prayer is our most formidable weapon the thing which makes all else we do efficient.

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours but the art of words exists too and will never be less important.

There were times when deep down inside I wanted to win so badly I could actually will it to happen. I think most of my career has been based on desire.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

You need to have a life outside your career.