I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.

Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization.

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.