我不认为自己是一个碰巧是黑人的作家。我认为自己是一个黑人作家。
I don’t think of myself as a writer who happens to be black. I think of myself as a black writer.
"The little things are infinitely the most important."
"History is not just what happened, but what we remember and how we remember it."
The uniform， constant， and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition， the principle from which public and national as well as private opulence is originally derived.
我不是医生，也不是魔术师，但却能让音乐活起来。
最好的报复就是巨大的成功。