It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.