Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
“The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.”
“Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.”