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I Wrote For Magazines. I Wrote Adventure Stuff, I Wrote For The 'national Enquirer,' I Wrote Advertising Copy For Cemeteries.

What I Found Fascinating Was Just How Quickly The Best Of The Young Negro League Players Were Drafted Into The Major Leagues Once Branch Rickey Broke The Color Line By Hiring Jackie Robinson. It Was Clear That All Of The Major League Owners Already Knew The Talents Of The Black Ballplayers That They Had Refused To Let Into Their League.

Writers Do Not Write What They Know. They Write What They Can Imagine.

And What I Was Feeling Was The Wonder Of Being More Than Me, Of Being More Than Mere Here And Now Allowed I Had Become A Shining Star, A Burning Nova Exploded With Love Flying Through An Endlessly Expanding Universe Away From The Me That Was Toward A Me That Is Beyond Understanding.

America Believes What's Good For Us Is Good For The World. It's Very Difficult To Understand That That's Not Necessarily True.