Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

Words stick, even when we don't want them to.

Love is like a musical score, sometimes very tuneful, creating a harmony of sounds, sometimes extremely harsh, striking a hell of false notes. (“Love lying fallow “)

But remember the overall lesson, that your love for others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

Superman and Robinhood are still alive in Hollywood.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.