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

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.

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.

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.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

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

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