I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.

I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models as "black girls." I thought, "They never say 'white girls.'

Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

Who says reading should be easy? Shouldn't it challenge you as hard sometimes as love. Maybe "hard" is not the right word in this context. Ha!

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.

Reyna sent me to get Percy, " Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?""Yeah, " Percy said. "He slaughtered my panda.

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.

By observing your judging mind, you can avoid automatically buying into these negative judgments...This transforms your experience of stress by taking the terror and panic out of it.

Call a man 'ignorant, ' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

He that marries late, marries ill.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

Always follow your own path.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.