人类并非在母亲生下他们的那一天就一劳永逸地诞生了，生活迫使他们一次又一次地重生自己。
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
I don’t think of myself as a writer who happens to be black. I think of myself as a black writer.
Architecture is the physical manifestation of our cultural values.
"Silence is the language of the oppressed."
The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.
文件就像定期保险：它令人满意，因为几乎没有人订阅它取决于它的利益。
Jazz is freedom. You think about that.
Legal rights are not natural rights; they are created by law.
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
我不想只是做音乐。我想创造历史。