The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.

So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.