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

I travel a lot. It used to be, when I would go to any country, I could guarantee that the first question would establish my name, and the fact that I've written Roots, and the third question, at least no later than the fourth question would not be a question, so much as a statement, something like, "We understand that in America white people do such and such bad things to black people."

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.

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

I am really quite proud of most of the people I " know who have "made it," who do things to help people.

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.