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

These walls are funny.First you hate them,then you get used to them;Enough time passes,gets so you depend on them.That's institutionalized.

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

好问题胜过简单的答案。

The past is never dead; it is not even past.

贫穷并不等于缺乏意志力，而是缺乏选择。