There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

"What for?" I said. "What for, Tante Lou? He treated me the same way he treated her. He wants me to feel guilty, just as he wants her to feel guilty. Well, I'm not feeling guilty, Tante Lou. I didn't put him there. I do everything I know how to do to keep people like him from going there. He's not going to make me feel guilty."

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.

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

...my heart may have been in it but my soul was not.

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.