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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.

David Simon Goes To The Jewish Weekly And Said He's Made All This Money, But He Can't Enjoy It Because Of Criticism By People Like Ishmael Reed.

My Work Holds Up The Mirror To Hypocrisy, Which Puts Me In A Tradition Of American Writing That Reaches Back To Nathaniel Hawthorne.

I Reached The Age Of 70, Because I Have Cultivated An Association Of Multicultural Intellectuals Who Are Informed And Alert To Whatever "tricknology" That's Laid On Us By The Powers That Be. These Include White Ethnic Intellectuals- People Who Know Their Roots- As Well As Native American, Asian American, Hispanic And Black Intellectuals. These Are Thirty, Forty-year Associations With Some Of The Best Minds Around. Minds That Are Ignored By The Media.

I Think I Have A Pugnacious Style. My Style Is Not Pretty. I Don't Use Words Like "amber" Or "opaque."