It's a black erotic novel — 25 percent of it is explicit sex,

There was a whole black experience from the hippie movement. It's a whole new world.

I'm talking about black male heroes, ... I'm not the only one doing this but there's not a big genre of black male heroes, who aren't caricatures.

When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities.

HBO and I have a deal to at least try to make a television series from the Leonid McGill stories. We're going to start with the first novel, 'The Long Fall.'

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.