环境适应自己性情的人是快乐的，而能使自己的性情适应所有环境的人是更优秀的。

我不是榜样，我只是我自己。

I'm always searching for new sounds.

解析：强调实践的重要性。

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