Evil isn't born...Neither is purity. Because even as newborns, there is something wrong inside of all of us bound to spring up and activate itself within us.

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

Pictorial is something that I am not used to. You have to pose, smile, bend your arm, straighten up, look to the left.

It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

If Arsenal played like this all the time they could win the league

I'd do a lot of things to protect you.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Make those important in your life smile today That smile is the most important thing you did today.