I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

One of the blessings and curses of my life is that I carry so many projects at the same time.

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective memory of migration, suffering and transformation while living in South Carolina.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.