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

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

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.

History is written by winners.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.