When I Write A Book,

People Think If You Describe Someone With Glistening Brown Skin You're Writing About Race, As If The Whole Of The African Diaspora Is In Someone's Brown Skin.

The Garden Has Taught Me To Live, To Appreciate The Times When Things Are Fallow And When They're Not.

A Professional Writer Is A Joke. You Write Because You Can't Do Anything Else, And Then You Have Another Job.

I Didn't Really Understand Racism Because I Grew Up In An All-black Society, So I Didn't See How It Was Possible Not To Like Me!

One's Obligation Every Day, Is To Choose To Follow The Nobler One.