The audience I developed in my mind’s eye was an audience of black children, as though I was talking to my own children. Something about writing for children imposed an absolute truth in my effort. I thought that was the best way for me to put the truth out there without any compromise.
Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins quoted in an article by Sam Stephenson at Paris Review. An Absolute Truth: On Writing a Life of Coltrane
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