With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.
What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.
In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.
You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy. Only occasionally does something really worthwhile really come out.
We need to stop trying to get attention by seeing who can scream and cry the loudest. Write something worth reading and your voice will be heard.
If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.
There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
Never be a bully. Bullying always hurts. The person you bullied may try to walk around with a smile on there face, but the pain may never go away.
I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
Part of the challenge of being a black Republican anywhere is that you start off with people walking in with chips on their shoulder trying to figure out what is wrong with you.
I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.
As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.
To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.
