“Be thankful for the people who have stood by you and cheered you on, but don’t forget to be thankful for the ones that said it could not be done. Writing a book is no small task and even the skeptics can help you get where you want to be!”

“For other men — men who are part of something, who follow a chief they believe in, or ways they were reared in from birth — they can keep their eyes from seeing what they have not been taught to see, and do not want to see. But too late was I brought to my father’s house. I tried to be part of it, but I never could.”