Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization make.

The idea that all people can and should live together in peace is not really a new one - but yet in practice it is very young indeed.

Knowing who you are is half the peace of accepting yourself.

Make sure you date someone who always makes you want to dance, with or without music.

How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY?

Hate is no respecter of race - as apparently neither is stupidity.

Negative brands are the main reasons why your dreams become too hard to change shape. Negative brand can cake your dreams to take undesirable shape without permitting for remedy to be made.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not.

To be hungry must be awful.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

Pajamas are good for the soul.

Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.