I race kind of sparingly.
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
The facts are always less than what really happened.
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.
You never know that the things you're doing are that meaningful to society.
Be the rainbow in someone else's cloud.
We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don't want to weaken the link in shoppers' minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.