If You Go Back To Before Mankind

I Acknowledge Immense Debt To The Griots [tribal Poets] Of Africa - Where Today It Is Rightly Said That When A Griot Dies, It Is As If A Library Has Burned To The Ground.

My Fondest Hope Is That 'roots' May Start Black, White, Brown, Red, Yellow People Digging Back For Their Own Roots. Man, That Would Make Me Feel 90 Feet Tall.

Beginning Writers Must Appreciate The Prerequisites If They Hope To Become Writers. You Pay Your Dues - Which Takes Years.

In All Of Us There Is A Hunger, Marrow-deep, To Know Our Heritage, To Know Who We Are And Where We Came From.

Every Time An Old Person Dies, It's Like A Library Burning Down.