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

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 my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

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.

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