We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

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.

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

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.

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.

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.

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