Consider We Are Born Not With Purpose,

The Only Lasting Truth Is Change. God Is Change.

Kindness Eases Change Love Quiets Fear

I Wanted To Write A Novel That Would Make Others Feel The History: The Pain And Fear That Black People Have Had To Live Through In Order To Endure.

In Order To Rise From Its Own Ashes A Phoenix First Must Burn.

I Wasn't Trying To Work Out My Own Ancestry. I Was Trying To Get People To Feel Slavery. I Was Trying To Get Across The Kind Of Emotional And Psychological Stones That Slavery Threw At People.