As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

My stories are character driven.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

My mama taught me that anything worth doing in life should be a little scary.

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?