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“We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.”

“We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.”

“We wrote Shift Ahead to document how the smartest companies and organizations shift their strategies in order to stay relevant in the face of swift and exponential changes in everything from technology to the forces of globalization, from politics and culture, from consumer tastes to human behavior. We wanted to find out how they shift ahead – how they stayed ahead of the curve, the competition, and the evolving requirements of their customers – given the barrage of evolving challenges.”

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.”

“We zijn zeventien, achttien, negentien, halfgaar uit de mallen van onze respectievelijke gezinnen gerold en nu, zonder die behuizing, zonder die vaste vorm, lijkt het alsof we uitvloeien. We zoeken naar een leven dat bij ons gaat passen. Een karakter, een imago, een stijl, een doel misschien of anders in elk geval een typische eigenschap of opvallend taalgebruik. Iedereen kan niet wachten de eerste stappen te zetten en tegelijkertijd jaagt het ons allemaal grote angst aan.”