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

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

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

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.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

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

I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.