We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.

More friction and tensions are caused in a family by tone of voice than for any other one reason.

When typography is on point, words become images.

All that materializes dematerializes.

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.