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My Novels And Poems Are Meant To Be Read Aloud. That's Why Jazz Musicians Have Been Able To Adapt My Stuff.

Americans Are Fickle. And What Constitutes The Enemy Is Always Changing. Believe It Or Not, At One Time Blacks Were The Favored Model Minority Over Asian Americans.

History Is The Story Of Warfare Between Secret Societies.

I Don't Know Why People Always Compare Me [ With Amiri Baraka] I Was Never Part Of The Black Arts Repertory Theater Or The Black Arts Movement; People Who Claim That I Was Are Wrong. I Was Downtown. I Was Living In Chelsea When They Were Operating In Harlem.

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