My policy is to not read any reviews.

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.