A Peasant That Reads Is A Prince

At One Time If You Were A Black Writer You Had To Be One Of The Best Writers In The World To Be Published. You Had To Be Great. Now You Can Be Good. Mediocre. And That's Good.

We Are Not Trapped Or Locked Up In These Bones. No, No. We Are Free To Change. And Love Changes Us. And If We Can Love One Another, We Can Break Open The Sky.

I Never Really Thought I'd Be Successful. I Never Though I'd Get Books Published, But This Was Something Completely Beyond Me. The Fact That It Happened Is Wonderful, But It Is Not Something That I Was Aiming For.

The First Thing You Have To Know About Writing Is That It Is Something You Must Do Every Day - Every Morning Or Every Night, Whatever Time It Is That You Have. Ideally, The Time You Decide On Is Also The Time When You Do Your Best Work.

Love, As The Poet Says, Is Like The Spring. It Grows On You And Seduces You Slowly And Gently, But It Holds Tight Like The Roots Of A Tree. You Don't Know Until You're Ready To Go That You Can't Move, That You Would Have To Mutilate Yourself In Order To Be Free. That's The Feeling. It Doesn't Last, At Least It Doesn't Have To. But It Holds On Like A Steel Claw In Your Chest. Even If The Tree Dies, The Roots Cling To You. I've Seen Men And Women Give Up Everything For Love That Once Was.