Joel Chandler Harris, who created a multi billion dollar industry, everything from his books, to Disney's "Song of the South" based upon the Uncle Re….

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in….

Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's….

During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent. B….

When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin countries read ….

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an….

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pa….

Whites have been the most subsidized group in the history of the United States and maybe the history of the world, while Blacks were enslaved and wer….

We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex: in the streets..

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art..

Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in Am….

Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted them. Now Margo Jefferson, who ….

I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque.".

American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one anot….

For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because ….

I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the….

I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense ….

I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. Wha….

Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they w….

There would be no Rock and Roll without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, etc. Fake ghetto books and fake ghetto mu….

I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was a cliché! It's like ….