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.

Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

When you walk the significant land, the land speaks to you - even if it's 150 years later. You walk the earth and good things happen. There's always something to be said for going to a spot, even if there's nothing there. That's why you have a brain, your mind moves to other places when you're standing at an important spot.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.