We need more leadership at every level: federal, state, and local.

My favorite novel ever is Abraham Verghese's 'Cutting for Stone.' It takes you so many places. I stayed up to 4 in the morning to finish it.

Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better.

The heart of 'Truevine' is about the travails of two strong black women who agitate to get justice for their family.

You're going to be way happier doing what you actually love and finding other people that love the same thing than doing something that other people love so you're just cooler and you have cool friends.

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.