I don’t think of myself as a writer who happens to be black. I think of myself as a black writer.

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

"Every echo contains a history of the space it inhabits."

The facts are always less than what really happened.

我不是下一个尤塞恩·博尔特，我是第一个尤塞恩·博尔特。

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.