My Work Holds Up The Mirror To

I Was On A Panel With Light Skinned Blacks And A Famous Gay Science Fiction Writer, Who Were Complaining About How Blacks Are Against Gays And Light Skinned Blacks And How Intolerant Blacks Are Of Different Groups. My Position Was That Blacks Were Among The Most Humanistic, Tolerant Groups In The Country And That Across The Street From My House In Oakland Was One Inhabited By White Gays.

In The Middle Of The Next Century, When The Literary Establishment Will Reflect The Multicultural Makeup Of This Country And Not Be Dominated By Assimiliationists With Similar Tastes, From Similar Backgrounds, And Of Similar Pretensions, Langston Hughes Will Be To The Twentieth Century What Walt Whitman Was To The Nineteenth.

I've Always Wondered Why European Politicians As A Group Seemed Brighter Than American Politicians As A Group. Maybe It's Becausemany American Politicians Have The Race Issue To Fall Back On. They Become Lazy, Suspicious Of Innovative Ideas, And As A Result American Institutions Atrophy.

What Was Once Dormant Is Now A Creeping Thing

During The Last Decades, Films About The Black Experience Have Been Produced, Directed, And Even Scripted By White Men. Some Of Them Are Excellent. But Most Reflect George Bernard Shaw’s Warning That 'if You Do Not Tell Your Stories Others Will Tell Them For You And They Will Vulgarize And Degrade You.'