I'm very concerned about the role of one of our city councilman in this process. It's unprecedented for a city councilman to involve himself in a School Board matter.

He needs to remember he's always wearing a City Council hat.

We've been blessed so that we can bless somebody else.

To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.

In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.