I attended a Baptist church as a child and was an avid reader starting with the Bible.

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

The difference between the Pyramids in Egypt and the ones in Mexico is there is nothing inside the Mexican Pyramids. In the African Pyramids, the whole inside is a burial chamber. So they were really gravesites to nobility.

My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our sad and warm songs together.

When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'