Every death is like the burning of a library.
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.
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.
My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.