I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Don't tell me to believe. Don't tell me to believe in the same God or laws that men believe in who commit these murders. Don't tell me to believe that God can bless this country and that men are judged by their peers. Who among his peers judged him? Was I there? Was the minister there? Was Harry Williams there? Was Farrell Jarreau? Was my aunt? Was Vivian? No, his peers did not judge him, and I will not believe.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.

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

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

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.