Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."

Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout New York and reached all the way down to Martinique where I was a guest Professor? The lie was circulated by people who don't read my books.