Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.
Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.
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.
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
I write with as much objectivity as I can.
In all my stories and novels, no one ever escapes Louisiana. Maybe that is because my soul never left Louisiana, although my body did go to California.