Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.

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.

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.