“I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send ...” — Jesse Jackson Quote

“I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.”

“I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.”

“For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.”

“Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.”

“At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.”

“I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.”

“It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.”

“But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-and the ancient forest began to smoke. By morning there was a mass of booming, fiery tongues, a hissing, crashing, howling all around, half the sky black with smoke, and the bloodied sun just barely visible.”

“I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different”

“Life is a race against time”

“The novel, by working with the interplay of durations, and inviting the reader to interact with them, has the capacity to pay a double, triple, multiple allegiance to the weird workings of time, to our common sense idea of its ongoing sequence as well as to what living-in-time can actually feel like, filling it and distorting it.”

“Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.”