I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have