The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the news….

The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democrac….

statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared leaving no solid clues nor traceonly a space in the ….

David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed..

I'm sure that a previous generation of Jews who published radical newspapers and journals would be critical of [David] Simon's projects. These were l….

In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're going to end up the same….

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….

Americans are fickle. And what constitutes the enemy is always changing. Believe it or not, at one time Blacks were the favored model minority over A….

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne..

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff..

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

As for [Amiri] Baraka, he and I have disagreements. I mean, he becomes a demagogue when there's an audience. He's a nice guy in private. I mean I lik….

I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures tha….

That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison ….

Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of this honor. It's a w….

Given all of the anti-Muslim propaganda that's being disseminated by The American Nazi media, you have to be careful. It can stress you out..

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddle….

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

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

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as….

Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout New York and reached ….