自己
Stories are the way we understand the world, and the way we understand ourselves.
"Writing is a way of exploring the world and understanding ourselves better."
The power of a story lies in its ability to connect us to something greater than ourselves.
Sometimes, the hardest battles are fought within the confines of our own minds.
The world is full of stories, but it's the ones we tell ourselves that shape our reality.
I don’t write for an audience. I write for myself.
I write to understand the world, and to understand myself.
I don’t think of myself as a writer who happens to be black. I think of myself as a black writer.
To be human is to be in conflict with oneself.
"We are all, in some way, exiles from ourselves."
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The world is a place of chaos and confusion, and the only way to make sense of it is to find your own path through it.
We are all prisoners of our own memories.
We are all ghosts of ourselves, haunting the places we once lived.
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
The best stories are those that resonate with the reader's own experiences, that touch something deep within them.
I am interested in the way people lie to themselves, the stories they tell themselves to make life bearable.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.