I don’t think of myself as a writer who happens to be black. I think of myself as a black writer.
我只和自己竞争。当你与别人竞争时，反而限制了自己。
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.
数学不是关于数字、方程、计算或算法的：它是关于理解的。
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
有独创性的作家，除非死了，否则总是令人震惊、令人愤慨的；新奇的事物会扰乱和排斥。
对付不自由世界的唯一方法就是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。
记忆不是录音设备，而是一个积极组织和重建信息的系统。
我不是来和别人一样的，我是来做我自己的。
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
To be forgiven is only half the gift. The other half is that we also can forgive.