Forget Inspiration. Habit Is More

Positive Obsession Is About Not Being Able To Stop Just Because You're Afraid And Full Of Doubts. Positive Obsession Is Dangerous. It's About Not Being Able To Stop At All.

I Wanted To Write A Novel That Would Make Others Feel The History: The Pain And Fear That Black People Have Had To Live Through In Order To Endure.

I Wasn't Trying To Work Out My Own Ancestry. I Was Trying To Get People To Feel Slavery. I Was Trying To Get Across The Kind Of Emotional And Psychological Stones That Slavery Threw At People.

I Just Knew There Were Stories I Wanted To Tell.

In Order To Rise From Its Own Ashes A Phoenix First Must Burn.