I Had To See And Feel And

I Want You To Show Them The Difference Between What They Think You Are And What You Can Be.

Without Love For My Fellow Man And Respect For Nature, To Me, Life Is An Obscenity.

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.

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.