Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.

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

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.

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

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

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

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.