All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.

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.