America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or o….

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment to change….

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked..

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed..

So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowl….

Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity..

The truth is the light and the light is the truth..

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear..

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live..

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike..

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies….