And I'm A Slow Writer: Five, Six

When You Grow Up In A Totally Segregated Society, Where Everybody Around You Believes That Segregation Is Proper, You Have A Hard Time. You Can't Believe How Much It's A Part Of Your Thinking.

I Took Five Years On The First Volume, Five Years On The Second Volume, And Ten Years On The Third Volume.

A Combination Of All That Was Best In The Gladdest Days Of The Departing Year.

Most Of My Inspiration, If That's The Word, Came From Books Themselves.

I Prize The Depression, For Instance, Because I Learned The Value Of Things In The Depression That A Way People Who Don't Have To Worry About Such Things Never Learned To Prize It Really, I Believe.