My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in an old people's home and stop being strong and lose his voice.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

All Stories are True.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

What are we, Charlie's Angels?

I remain on SVU because it is an incredible opportunity.

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Never use the phrase: 'buy my book' - ever.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.

The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.

Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute final way.

With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself.

Want to accomplish something, any-damn-thing? Sharpen your political skills!