Who says reading should be easy? Shouldn't it challenge you as hard sometimes as love. Maybe "hard" is not the right word in this context. Ha!

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.

I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models as "black girls." I thought, "They never say 'white girls.'

Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.

I'm a draftsperson. And also, I really respond to love.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.

Commandments are opportunities to exercise our agency and to receive blessings.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.