Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

Dead is not an option ".

Tapas is not a penance, it's a mental training to develop will power

If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it.

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

I'm stronger than you are, Redd.

I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries.

We didn't create ISIS - ISIS created themselves, but we will stop them, and one of the ways we stop them is by not funding them, and not arming them.

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.