Captions : My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences

Captions : You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought was, ‘Why didn’t they raise up? Why didn’t they overpower? They had the numbers.’ But really these people, their hope was broken. Their sense of love was broken. Their appreciation for who they were was broken. Aldis Hodge