You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Writing is a struggle against silence.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

I need, therefore I imagine.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.

What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Out of the water, I am nothing.

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

The industry is littered with self-styled purists who believe the business of media.. the requirement to make a profit.. somehow corrupts the craft.

& I think I like him better with the fitted cap on He aint even gotta try to put the mack on

If you're going to change a habit, you must BE the treatment.