I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
“The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.”
“I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.”