I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.
Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.
"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."
When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.