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Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it don't mean a thing.
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All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle between my conception of myself and the world versus reality.
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When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
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I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.
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In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.
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I did every thing, even dirty jobs like dishwashing or delivery boy for a grocer.
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It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
