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Rejections Are Painful, But Inevitable. They're Every Writer's Rite Of Passage.

I Have A Huge And Savage Conscience That Won't Let Me Get Away With Things.

I Wanted To Write A Novel That Would Make Others Feel The History: The Pain And Fear That Black People Have Had To Live Through In Order To Endure.

Choose Your Leaders With Wisdom And Forethought. To Be Led By A Coward Is To Be Controlled By All That The Coward Fears. To Be Led By A Fool Is To Be Led By The Opportunists Who Control The Fool. To Be Led By A Thief Is To Offer Up Your Most Precious Treasures To Be Stolen. To Be Led By A Liar Is To Ask To Be Told Lies. To Be Led By A Tyrant Is To Sell Yourself And Those You Love Into Slavery.

It's When People Begin Using Their Religion As Just A Way Of Getting Power Over Other People That Scares Me. I'm Afraid That's What's Going On In A Lot Of Cases Right Now. When People Deliberately Tell Lies, Creationism For Instance, And Pretend, "oh, It's Not Really Religion." I Mean They Know They're Lying, And Yet They're The Religious People. There's Something Wrong There.