Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

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

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.

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

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.