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.

"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

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.

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

The mark of fear is not easily removed.