I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.