I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
First fight. Then fiddle.
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.