When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
From Stephen Carter
Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
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.
There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.
More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
I think of my novels as entertainments.
If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
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.
So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
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