The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have something to write about, and you only have something to write about if you do something.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.