If they are, they are going to end up with a generic book. I grew up with a hundred books you should read before college. You've got to read Frederick Douglass. You've got to know Souls of Black Folk . Of course, you have to read Toni Morrison.
Gaines is the most marvelous writer to never win the Nobel Prize.
I'd like to see our own Nobel. Not that I want to exclude others. Now those same kids have grown up to make clothes for themselves. We spoke with them about the business of fashion. I am the consumer.