You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.

There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.

My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.