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.

But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Everything's been said, but it needs saying again.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.