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.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

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

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

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

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