"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"You can't have a good marriage unless you're a good person."

"Black people have always been there. We're just not being seen. And when we are seen, we're seen as a problem."

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

"I think of myself as an American writer. I don't think of myself as a Black writer."