Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for youI spoke to God this morning and he don't like you!Don't you try and teach me no original sin

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny.

I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break.

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

Justice is the soul of the universe.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced