I'd Crack Up Without My Music. It's

I Take What People Feel And Think, Especially When It's Different From, Very Seriously, And I Find It Liberating.

Let Me Put It This Way: When I Read, I Learned The World Was Not As Small As My House. And That Everybody In My Home Town Was Not Representative Of The Way People In The World Were Raised. And That Was What Saved Me.

Folks Want To Glow, To Leave Their Worries And Dead Skin Behind.

I Like Doing The Readings And The Autographing, But The Interviewing Gets A Little Tedious Because You Get Asked The Same Questions Every Day And Sometimes Three Or Four Times A Day.

Why Is It That If You Happen To Be Black And Over Six Feet Tall, Everybody Thinks You Supposed To Play Basketball Or Football?