The Pressure-Maybe one day, after centuries, we can become brilliant gemsin crystal cavesand we will be immortal after all.

Fruition-Think of writing as a harvest.You till the ground.Plant.Water.Wait.Apple trees take years to bear fruit.Harvest.Clean.Process.Then you have apple pie.

Release-For yearsthey told you tosit.Stay.Now they open the doorand tell you toget up.Leave.Where do you gowith no oneto show youthe way?

Choice-Judgement.Black coffee acidon an empty stomach.Perception.Cool, clear water.

We, as human beings, enjoy freedom of choice.Your attitude is your choice!

Thoughts are more alive than you are. Without thoughts, are you there?

The darkness is no place to be in times like this.

Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.

Quran says do not abuse others' gods, they will abuse Allah. But most people do not believe in this... they feel their way is the only right one. This is to maintain religious hegemony.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

I want to race as long as I'm having fun, it's competitive and healthy, and who knows when that, you know, date comes when that's not happening anymore.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.