I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

Most of the things that are asked of me as a representative black person, would suggest never are we equal Americans.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.