Tying The Little Folks With

But Then, As Far As I Know, As Far As I've Studied Or Heard Or Picked Up, It Seems That This Type Of Thing Is A Curse Against Mankind.

You Have To Deal With The Fact That Your Life Is Your Life.

I Certainly Wasn't Seeking Any Degree, The Way A College Confers A Status Symbol Upon Its Students. My Homemade Education Gave Me, With Every Additional Book That I Read, A Little Bit More Sensitivity To The Deafness, Dumbness And Blindness That Was Afflicting The Black Race In America. Not Long Ago, An English Writer Telephoned Me, Asking Questions. One Was, "what's Your Alma Mater?" I Told Him, "books.

I Acknowledge Immense Debt To The Griots [tribal Poets] Of Africa - Where Today It Is Rightly Said That When A Griot Dies, It Is As If A Library Has Burned To The Ground.

My Parents Were Teachers And They Went Out Of Their Way To See To It That I Had Books. We Grew Up In A Home That Was Full Of Books. And So I Learned To Read. I Loved To Read.