So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.

We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.