Name the book of this quote and you win!?

Question

i really love this quote "And thats all we are, Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood, until we-each one of us, individually-decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better. Because we need you to be and want you to be."

Answer 1

A lesson before dying

By Ernest J. Gaines