There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend.

If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

I'm always a person that's a little suspicious of anything that's been converted in post, but if I know that it's been originated, either in live-action or animation, I'm intrigued.

I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

A competitive culture endures by tearing people down.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.

Whether you're with a group of people, whether you're playing music or whether you're by yourself, even if it's written material, you have to be listening.

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.