Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.

But while Sasha told us that in America even the most successful men can have but one wife at once--my father had six--and talked about escalators, indoor plumbing, and the various laws of the land, he did not warn us that I would be told by American teenagers that I should go back to Africa.

Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.