Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Do what you know needs to be done.

My wife is my best friend, by far my best friend.

I remember some of the sets on "Alexander" were extraordinary and it would just take your breath away.

Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.

Not having a father helping you grow into manhood and teaching you those things about how to be a man hurts. It hurt my brothers because their fathers weren't involved in their lives.

I'm excited and terrified to write something new.

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.