Native Americans Were Driven Off Their Land.

I Think There Are Fundamentalists All Over The World. I Think All Religions Have Fundamentalists Who Have Different Interpretations Of Scriptures That Are Very Vague.

The Last Publicized Center Of American Writing Was Manhattan. Its Writers Became Known As The New York Intellectuals. With Important Connections To Publishing, And Universities, With Access To The Major Book Reviews, They Were Able To Pose As The Vanguard Of American Culture When They Were So Obsessed With The Two Joes--mccarthy And Stalin--that They Were To Produce Only Two Artists, Saul Bellow And Philip Roth, Who Left Town.

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.

A Lot Of Great Art Comes From The Afro-american Male Experience. Black Men Are Geniuses, And Many Times Their Desperation, Their Position As Being Pariahs, Leads Them To Great Originality.

My Stuff Is Direct. Critics Have Compared My Writing Style With Boxing All The Way Back To 1978 When My First Book Of Essays Appeared: It Was Compared To Muhammad Ali's Style.