You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Racism and hatred are synonymous.

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

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

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

I am really quite proud of most of the people I " know who have "made it," who do things to help people.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.