Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.