The Watch That Ends the Night

Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot. It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.

Some folks is meant to make excuses. Some folks is meant to make history.

... my aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity. The people represented in this book lived and breathed and loved. They were as real as you or me. They could have been any one of us.

But most are fueled by hope.

Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poor so the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.

In vogue and cosmopolitan they clutch their Pomeranians and walk among the millionaires or watch from swayback steamer chairs