Though my eyes cannot see beyond what I can see, I can see beyond what I cannot see

Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprints on earth

There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people

if you are to begin at the beginning of the end, do not wait till the end before you begin. Time and timing is an essential accoutrement in the journey of life.

speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do

Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you.

the matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

I live for my death. While it is important how you perceive me now, It is more imperative how generations to come would perceive me

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

I've got to make sure I'm keeping weight on.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

I don't know how to be anything but myself.

There is nothing you cannot do.