False Hope Is Worse Than Despair.

Separate And Unequal Didn't Work 100 Years Ago. It Will Not Work Today.

People Rarely Speak Of Children; You Hear Of 'cohort Groups' And 'standard Variations,' But You Don't Hear Much Of Boys Who Miss Their Cats Or 6-year-olds Who Have To Struggle With Potato Balls.

If There Are Amazing Graces On This Earth, I Believe That They Are These Good Children Sent To Us By God And Not Yet Soiled By The Knowledge That Their Nation Does Not Love Them.

At That Time, I Had Recently Finished A Book Called Amazing Grace, Which Many People Tell Me Is A Very Painful Book To Read. Well, If It Was Painful To Read, It Was Also Painful To Write. I Had Pains In My Chest For Two Years While I Was Writing That Book.

I Feel, In The End, As If Everything I've Done Has Been A Failure.