There's Many Things That I Am. And

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.

At One Time If You Were A Black Writer You Had To Be One Of The Best Writers In The World To Be Published. You Had To Be Great. Now You Can Be Good. Mediocre. And That's Good.

I Don't Ever Know Where I'm Going. Because One Of The Wonderful Things About Writing, Which Is Different Than Working In Programming, You Don't Need To Know. You Could Just Write And Discover Where You're Going. And It's A Great Deal Of Fun.

My Father Cared About The World He Lived In, And So He Admitted His Confusion About His Place In America Because He Didn't Want Me To Make The Same Mistake In My Life.

The Fear In My Heart Was Like In One Of Those Dreams Where You Try To Run But You Can't Do It, You Can't Run Because The Fear Is An Anchor In Your Chest.