Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like it or….

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from..

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth..

Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the ra….

Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between being ….

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it..

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future..

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our de….

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of ot….

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life..

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you..

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down..

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children..

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics..

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it..

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, ….

The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it..

When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand..

The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle..

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help..

Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped..