My Job Is Writing For People To

When You Deal With A Person Who's Experiencing Dementia, You Can See Where They're Struggling With Knowledge. You Can See What They Forget Completely, What They Forget But They Know What They Once Knew. You Can Tell How They're Trying To Remember.

Black Men Of Our Day Were Never Told, The Sky's The Limit. ... We Could Aspire To Joe Louis But Never Henry Ford.

I Always Tell People, If A Young Girl Read "beloved" As Her First Novel, She'd Have To Kill Either Herself Or Her Mother, Because In "beloved" You Have A Mother Killing Their Children. This Is Not Something A Child Would Accept Very Easily. And Would Never Understand.

I Believe That A Writer Has To Tell What They Think Is The Truth In A Human Experience. The Truth Of The Human Experience Cannot Escape The Political.

One Of The Things That I Love About Being A Writer Is This. I Wake Up Every Day And I Write For Three Hours. I Wake Up Early. So Like 6:00, 7:00 In The Morning, I Write Till 9:00 Or 10:00. I Live In New York, Nobody Even Is Breathing Until 9:00 Or 10:00 In The Morning. So, It's Like My Writing Life Is Completely Removed From The Rest Of My Life.