Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in. 
I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque." 
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies. 
I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world. 
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind. 
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. 
Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence. 
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. 
What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing 
All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree. 
Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters. 
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. 