I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

I need, therefore I imagine.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Maybe a combination of things in this world are our true soul mates.

The dictionary feeds me daily, thesaurus always adds the gravy, big words I bite, so very tasty.

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.

When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.

Bush's popularity is at 40% in South America? He could be their president!

True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.

Life isn’t fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don’t need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages.

If they want to take all the belts, they can take them, but they'll never take what I've done and my achievements.

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !