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

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing

The plays raise issues that are ignored in other forums.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because they all were marrying their first cousins.