Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of windows and remember that even those famous late starters Joseph Conrad and George Eliot had started by the age I was now.