There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.

I'm still vulnerable and still weak.

Things seem to fall apart inevitably.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.