The major credit I think Jim and I deserve. . . is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold. Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene. . . . We could not see what the answer was, but we considered it so important that we were determined to think about it long and hard, from any relevant point of view.
Langston Hughes
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long. " That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.
