I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Over the centuries, people have placed a wall around mastery. They have called it genius and have thought of it as inaccessible…But that wall is imaginary. This is the real secret: the brain that we possess…was designed to lead us to mastery.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Reward worthy failure–experimentation

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world… if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”