Poetry Teaches Us Music, Metaphor, Condensation And

I Would Have Been Completely Brainwashed By This Lopsided And Racist View Of The World If It Weren't For My Father. He Was A Deep Thinker And An Irrepressible Problem Solver. He Was A Black Socrates, Asking Why And Then Spoiling Ready-made Replies.

One Wouldn't Want To Say That What Makes A Good Writer Is The Number Of Books That The Writer Wrote Because You Could Write A Whole Number Of Bad Books. Books That Don't Work, Mediocre Books, Or There's A Whole Bunch Of People In The Pulp Tradition Who Have Done That. They Just Wrote... And Actually They Didn't Write A Whole Bunch Of Books, They Just Wrote One Book Many Times.

The Police And I Have A Deal. I Don't Talk To Them And They Don't Listen To Me.

My Hero In Comic Books Is Jack Kirby: 'spider-man,' 'fantastic Four,' 'captain America,' Marvel Comics. He Was Really The Basis For Marvel Comics.

I Know How Bad A Thing It Is To Be A Slave And I Know How Terrible It Was But I Don't Believe That There's A Free Person In The Whole World That Knows How Good A Cup Full Of Water Can Taste. Because You Have To Be A Deprived Slave, To Be Kept Waiting For Your Water Like We Were To Really Appreciate How Good Just One Swallow Can Be. When We Finally Got A Drop On Our Tongues It Was Like Something Straight From The Hands Of The Almighty.