I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
...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.
He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.
I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.
Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.