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Be kind to the living.
My family is my career.
Writing teaches writing.
So sweet and precious is family life.
The black church will accept anybody.
Anyone can write your own life story.
Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!
I don't do any art to please any people.
A daily dose of Nietzsche goes a long way.
I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.
I read more history books than anything else.
I don't want to read a book that's depressing.
Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.
A band is not a democracy: It's show business.
I can't be a creative person if I'm a celebrity.
You make your own luck by working hard, you know?
Put yourself in God’s hands and you can’t go wrong.
As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.
I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.
Most of my work is done when everyone else is asleep.
I thank God I was a reporter before I became a writer.
God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.
A typewriter forces you to keep going, to march forward.
You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.
When you glorify violence, then it comes back to bite you.
My mother tried her best to give us a sense of self-esteem.
Be a member of the human race. Love somebody. Change the world.
Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.
Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.
Caring is beyond race. Either people care about you, or they don't.
I split my time between a small town in New Jersey and New York City.
Everybody knew James Brown. Every musician dreamed of being in his band.
When I was coming up, a lot of serious jazz players couldn't stand funk.
If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.
I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.
Spike Lee listens a lot. He's one of the quietest creative people I've ever met.
A lot of people are not interested in stories in which they don't see themselves.
We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.
The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.
Being a best-selling author doesn't make you a millionaire. It's not like Stephen King.
The whole notion of owning a person is so ludicrous, there's plenty of room to make fun.
You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.
A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.
It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.
Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.
I'm hot on the Jewish book club circuit. How many black authors do you know who can say that?
People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.
The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.