I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Change is growth

When you have a strong company culture it will shine through your brand and you can authentically say, “This is what our brand is about.

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

I always go heavy and I always go to failure.

I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.

My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.