People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

You can work next to a guy for months without even knowing his name.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.