I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

I don’t count the hours I practice, I make the hours count.

Even in abstraction, mathematics has profound real-world applications.

"A writer's greatest challenge is not to find the right words, but to find the truth within those words."