Survival is the foundation of endurance

Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.

I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.

I don't know about you, but in my neighborhood, they just opened a Starbucks... IN A STARBUCKS!!!

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.