Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

So long as there's been black churches in the United States, there's been a relationship between spiritual well-being and material acquisition. This has always been the case.

Perhaps God gives us a hint about whom God favors through physical and material prosperity. So those who are doing well are probably favored by God.

There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.

Pray. Smile. Repeat.

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

By doing that [ saying no boots on the ground], she [Hillary Clinton] has empowered the enemy, she's empowered the enemy.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

You know, people'd always ask "Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?" They never seen the house I'm running from.

Anger is a thief who steals away the nice moments.

Don't fear, just live right.

I'm weird, I do crazy things, it's not like the average norm.