I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence.

I started creating

Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.

I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

The real bubble in China is in US Treasuries, in US dollars.

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.

We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.