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.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.