I Have Black Guys Who Tell Me

My Work Holds Up The Mirror To Hypocrisy, Which Puts Me In A Tradition Of American Writing That Reaches Back To Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Writing Has Made Me A Better Man. It Has Put Me In Contact With Those Fleeting Moments Which Prove The Existence.

I Get Most My Information About What's Happening In The United States From Reports And Studies, Which Are Often In Conflict With What You Read On The Editorial Pages, Or Handouts From Right Wing Institutions Like The American Enterprise Institute.

For Generations Comedians Have Made Jokes About Scots-irish In The South Inter-breeding. "i Am My Own Grandpa" And All That Stuff; You Know, Because They All Were Marrying Their First Cousins.

We Not Only Grew Up On Be-bop; Be-bop Raised Us. For My Generation, Be-bop Came On Like A Light Bulb Going Flash Behind The Eyes.for Us, It Was Not Only An Intellectual Movement, But A Way Of Life. We Walked, Dressed, And Rapped Be-bop.