The Mark Of Fear Is Not Easily

There Will Always Be Men Struggling To Change, And There Will Always Be Those Who Are Controlled By The Past.

Sometimes You Got To Hurt Something To Help Something. Sometimes You Have To Plow Under One Thing In Order For Something Else To Grow.

You've Got To Bend With The Wind Or You're Broken.

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.

I Write With As Much Objectivity As I Can.