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

创新是我们工作的核心；这将帮助我们应对提供可负担能源同时减少环境影响的双重挑战。

I don't let the world steal my joy.

"To understand a place, you must first understand how it came to be."

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.