All my books come out of sermons, and I’m really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
It’s so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I’ve never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.
I know why the caged bird sings.
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole other world in books.
All the things I’ve read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.
I went to a bookstore to try to find a book. The bottom line is, it all comes by trial and error. It was scary and exciting at first you don’t know what to expect. But once you look into your child’s eyes, you forget about that.
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.
The true test of any scholar’s work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.
The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.
A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.
For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I’ve never really dealt with religious things.
Got an hour or two? That’s all it takes for one of my books.
For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and – ta da! – a window.
Nobody’s favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody’s favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?
When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.
I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history.
I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.
The Bible is the book of my life. It’s the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.