American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.

There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want.

The American public has a right to know what's going on.