I'm talking about black male heroes, ... I'm not the only one doing this but there's not a big genre of black male heroes, who aren't caricatures.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

There was a whole black experience from the hippie movement. It's a whole new world.

You're talking about poor people whose lives have been destroyed,

It's a black erotic novel — 25 percent of it is explicit sex,

When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.