When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

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

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.

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

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.