I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait.
“It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.”
“I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.”