The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like it or not. Never, never give up, and the world will reward you beyond your wildest dreams.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.