"not only do I want people to know the history of the underclass, but I want them to go investigate. So, engaging with…"

"…all sorts of things that don’t even look political got mixed up with the 1970s and the new politics. So, that was ho…"

"I don’t know that the writers are aware enough of the rural. I mean, there’s nature, they will talk about the blue sk…"

"The business of being translated—it’s an honor if people from somewhere else, another language group, another culture…"

"My work belongs to the people who are reading it. That’s how I hold with the work going away: people have the right t…"

"Louisiana was part of my larger interest in Africa and diaspora, and the need for blacks of the diaspora, and to a ce…"

"People read about these things in something called “history” at school, but it’s not made to relate to your real life…"

"…you can’t assimilate until you are something. Then you have something to give other people. My position is this: the…"

"Reading Dr. Erna Brodber’s novel Myal (1988) is a transformative experience that unchains both truths and memories an…"

"I think that what Erna Brodber is doing is wonderful because she's coming from that extremely spiritual dimension whi…"