I Write To Try To

The Sharecropper May Lower His Eyes, But Not Because He's Less Of A Man. That's Just A Condition Of Society That Such Things Exist.

How Do People Come Up With A Date And A Time To Take Life From Another Man? Who Made Them God?

Everything's Been Said, But It Needs Saying Again.

I Have Learned As Much About Writing About My People By Listening To Blues And Jazz And Spirituals As I Have From Reading Novels. The Understatements In The Tenor Saxophone Of Lester Young, The Crystal, Haunting, Forever Searching Sounds Of John Coltrane, And The Softness And Violence Of Count Basie's Big Band - All Have Fired My Imagination As Much As Anything In Literature.

Why Is It That, As A Culture, We Are More Comfortable Seeing Two Men Holding Guns Than Holding Hands?