If You Want To Be A Writer,

I Know How Bad A Thing It Is To Be A Slave And I Know How Terrible It Was But I Don't Believe That There's A Free Person In The Whole World That Knows How Good A Cup Full Of Water Can Taste. Because You Have To Be A Deprived Slave, To Be Kept Waiting For Your Water Like We Were To Really Appreciate How Good Just One Swallow Can Be. When We Finally Got A Drop On Our Tongues It Was Like Something Straight From The Hands Of The Almighty.

I Would Have Been Completely Brainwashed By This Lopsided And Racist View Of The World If It Weren't For My Father. He Was A Deep Thinker And An Irrepressible Problem Solver. He Was A Black Socrates, Asking Why And Then Spoiling Ready-made Replies.

I Think Of Writers As Explorers, Not Necessarily As Detectives. So There Is Certainly Detecting That Is Going On - They're Explorers.

Hbo And I Have A Deal To At Least Try To Make A Television Series From The Leonid Mcgill Stories. We're Going To Start With The First Novel, 'the Long Fall'.

We Are Not Trapped Or Locked Up In These Bones. No, No. We Are Free To Change. And Love Changes Us. And If We Can Love One Another, We Can Break Open The Sky.