Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.

There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.