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

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?

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

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

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.

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.