As A Writer, You Explore All Kinds

In The Middle Of The Next Century, When The Literary Establishment Will Reflect The Multicultural Makeup Of This Country And Not Be Dominated By Assimiliationists With Similar Tastes, From Similar Backgrounds, And Of Similar Pretensions, Langston Hughes Will Be To The Twentieth Century What Walt Whitman Was To The Nineteenth.

There Would Be No Rock And Roll Without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Etc. Fake Ghetto Books And Fake Ghetto Music. Elvis Presley, Whom They Idol, Is Merely A Karaoke Makeover Of James Brown And Chuck Berry.

The Last Publicized Center Of American Writing Was Manhattan. Its Writers Became Known As The New York Intellectuals. With Important Connections To Publishing, And Universities, With Access To The Major Book Reviews, They Were Able To Pose As The Vanguard Of American Culture When They Were So Obsessed With The Two Joes--mccarthy And Stalin--that They Were To Produce Only Two Artists, Saul Bellow And Philip Roth, Who Left Town.

I'm Sure That You Could Go Back And Make A Graph Showing That All The Killings Of Black Males Increased In Times Of Economic Difficulty. As A Matter Of Fact, A Black Man Was Lynched Last Year.

I Try To Do What Has Never Been Done Before.