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.

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

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

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

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.

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.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.