A Peasant That Reads Is A Prince

Freedom Is A State Of Mind, I Said Wondering Where I'd Heard It Before, Not A State Of Being. We Are All Slaves To Gravity And Morality And The Vicissitudes Of Nature. Our Genes Govern Us Much More Than We'd Like To Think. Our Bodies Can Not Know Absolute Freedom But Our Minds Can, Can At Least Try.

The Idea Of Being Productive, The Idea Of Producing Many Books Is Going To Lead You Toward You Becoming A Better And Better Writer.

I Always Tell People, If A Young Girl Read "beloved" As Her First Novel, She'd Have To Kill Either Herself Or Her Mother, Because In "beloved" You Have A Mother Killing Their Children. This Is Not Something A Child Would Accept Very Easily. And Would Never Understand.

All Of The Philosophers I Studied Were White (with A Few Eastern Exceptions), And, For That Matter, They Were All Male. Africa, The Cradle Of Civilization, Seemed To Have No Footing In The Highest Form Of Human Thought.

Young People Live Exactly Today... And They Live In The Immediacy Of Their World. And It's Important For Us, People From Older Generations To Realize That A Lot Of Our Values, A Lot Of Our Truths Are No Longer Truths, Are No Longer Valuable.