But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

Family is the last and greatest discovery. It is our last miracle.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

I'm not interested in food. It's just fuel.

My family is my career.

I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that it has allowed me to speak in a kind of free way. But most African American writers don't have that. They don't have that opportunity, they don't have that.

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.