The beauty of architecture lies in its ability to evoke emotions and memories.
I don’t think of myself as a writer who happens to be black. I think of myself as a black writer.
And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.
The only certainty is uncertainty.