Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.

Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

When you get to mixing sex and religion, it will make anybody crazy.

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.