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.

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.

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.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.