Julius Lester

From "The Creature with No Claws":

Sometimes folks ask me if these tales have any point to'em, a moral, or something like that. I hope not! Nothing ruins a good story more than a commercial.

But that doesn't mean you can't learn nothing from these stories. What I've learned is not to believe what I see or what I hear, what I smell or what I taste. I believe only what I can put my hands on and feel. The truth is that folks fool themselves a lot worse than they get fooled by others. If you don't believe it, you ask Brer Wolf the next time you meet him in the big road.