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.

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

He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

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.

We looked at each other, and I could see in those big reddened eyes that he was not going to scream. He was full of anger - and who could blame him? - but he was no fool. He needed me, and he wanted me here, if only to insult me.

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