"I've heard about my size all my life. It makes you work that much harder. It's gratifying to prove them wrong."

“I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.”

“Ten, I thought, he's definitely a ten”

“I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.”

“Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.”

“... it is better to believe even what is impossible to our own nature and to men, than to be unbelieving like the rest of the world, we have learned; for we know that our Master Jesus Christ said, that 'what is impossible with men is possible with God' (Mt. 19:26)?”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com

“Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.”

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1971). “The Little Package: Pages on Literature and Landscape from a Traveling Bookman's Life”, Books for Libraries

“And I think I have a distinct voice.”