“In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got invol”

“I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.”