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.

I Was Challenged To A Fistfight By Margo Jefferson, The Pulitzer Prize Winner, New York Times Writer, Who Is Part Of A Feminist Clique At The Times, Which Believes That Black Men Are The Principal Threat To The Women Of The World.

I'm Beginning To Believe That Killer Illiteracy Ought To Rank Near Heart Disease And Cancer As One Of The Leading Causes Of Deathamong Americans. What You Don't Know Can Indeed Hurt You, And So Those Who Can Neither Read Nor Write Lead Miserable Lives, Like Richard Wright's Character, Bigger Thomas, Born Dead With No Past Or Future.

I Asked Joe Weixlmann Why He Would Print A Death Threat Like That In Light Of The Fact That There Are All Of These Armed Ideological Nuts Wandering Around Loose. He Said That For Him, To "ice" Someone Means To Reprimand Them.

Do You Think That Gwendolyn Brooks Would Give An Award To Someone Who Hated Black Women, The Lie That Was Circulated Throughout New York And Reached All The Way Down To Martinique Where I Was A Guest Professor? The Lie Was Circulated By People Who Don't Read My Books.