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….

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

[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994] ends with a White profess….

I have Black guys who tell me they put my books on their bed stands to read at night like something for guidance or information. That really pleases ….

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 ….

As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions..

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….

The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to p….

A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents….

History is the story of warfare between secret societies..

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….

If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell….

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 ….

What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean there's a White King of R….

I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in..

I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever "tricknology"….

I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politi….

Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba t….

Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing..

In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assi….

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….