My Major Allegiance Has Been To Storytelling,

I Much Prefer Working With Kids Whose Life Could Be Completely Upended By A Reading Of A Book Over A Weekend. You Give Them A Book To Read - They Go Home And Come Back A Changed Person. And That Is So Much More Interesting And Exciting.

If You Are Born Black, It Is Better To Be Born Now Than In Any Other Time In United States History. My Grandson Is Black. His Life Is A Different Life Than If He Had Been Born When I Was Born.

Let The Truth Take Care Of Itself, I Decided. It's Done All Right On Its Own So Far.

You Go Out Into The World, You Read Everything You Can Read, You Imitate The Things You Love, And You Learn How Hard It Is To Do. Eventually, You Learn Your Own Vision Of The World, You Learn Your Own Voice And How To Hear It, And You Learn To Write Your Own Work. Writers Today Have As Many Opportunities As My Generation Did, But They Don't See The Examples As Clearly As We Did.

Our Sins Describe Us, And Our Prohibitions Describe Our Sins.