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Regardless Of The Criticisms I Receive From The Left, The Right And The Middle, I Think It's Important To Maintain A Prolific Writing Jab, As Long As My Literary Legs Hold Up.

American Cultural Institutions Seem So Bent On Preserving The Values Of "western Civilization," The Mythical "whitetown," That Welearn About One Another's Cultures The Same Way We Learn About Sex: In The Streets.

I Use Non-fiction Work Written By Whites In My Research. It's Indispensable. That Wasn't The Problem. I Said That "the Wire" Was A Cliché! It's Like My Writing A Series About Jewish Life And Casting All Of The Characters As Inside Traders.

As For [amiri] Baraka, He And I Have Disagreements. I Mean, He Becomes A Demagogue When There's An Audience. He's A Nice Guy In Private. I Mean I Like The Guy; He's A Terrific Writer. I've Published Two Of His Books. Baraka Is One Of These Fundamentalists Who Is Prone To Idol Worship.

I Consider Racism To Be A Medical Problem. Racists Need Serious Medical And Psychiatric Help, Because They Are Killing Themselves And Making Others Suffer Along With Them.