My British publisher has this independent press. It's pretty small; they actually won last year. And she's got this great energy, and she's fiercely independent, and you know this book was a hard sell. No one wanted to buy this book. But she did, and so it's paid off for her, I hope.

I've written a little bit in Germany.

In The Sellout I tried to capture how we can talk and see race, how we see urbanity, and how we see our history.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

That's such a great book [Bloods]. That's a perfect way to articulate this thing that we're talking about. Just because someone is a black general, doesn't mean this person is going to have a certain outlook on it.

I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it.

I'm not searching for the truth.That's too much pressure .