With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

There are three kinds of people: White people, Colored people, and Black people.