A Little Anger Is A Good Thing

There Were A Lot Of Video Store Owners And Managers Out Of Work, Once Pornography Became More About Streaming And Downloads. But The Other Thing Is That There Are A Lot Of People Who Make Money By Finding A Place To Stand And Add Almost Nothing. It's Particularly Ironic If Your Job Title Is Pimp. On Some Level, In A Healthier World Where Sex Work Could Be Rationalized And The Risk Reduced, Your Whole Job Title Would Be Extraneous Anyway. It's Not Exactly A Point Of Great Grievance If You're A Pimp That Suddenly Your Prostitutes Don't Require The Same Level Of Reliance.

To Be Told You've Won A Macarthur Fellowship Is Very Flattering And Gratifying Personally.

Those...who Insist That There Are Some Moral Limits That They Will Not Violate, Are Forever Surprising Themselves.

What City Has Given The World More In Terms Of American Culture Than New Orleans? There Is None. Not New York. Not L.a. Not Chicago. Not Anywhere, In The Sense That African American Music Has Gone Around The World Twenty Times Over, And It's Continuing To Evolve. It Is Our Greatest Cultural Export.

I Always Tell Lawrence Gilliard Jr. He Never Got A Decent Bite Of The Apple, So I Was Happy We Had A Role That Seemed Perfect For Him. I Like The Idea Of Him As One Of The Few Moral Centres Of The Wire Show.