So We Gravitated To Shows And Issues

We Did An Episode On Good Times Which Came Out Of A Newspaper Article About The Incidence Of Hypertension In Black Males Being Higher Than Whites, And Increasing. So We Did A Show In Which James, The Father On Good Times, Had Hypertension.

I Got A Call From An Agent To Come To New York City, And Write For The 'ford Star Revue.' Because At The Time There Wasn't Much 'national Television'.

I Think What's Dangerous Is 24 Hours A Day, 335 Channels, Or Whatever The Hell There Is. Too Much Is Too Much.

You're In The Business - When You're A Writer, Producer, Director - To Get Ratings.

That's A Very Hard Thing To Help The Establishment Know. We're Still An Establishment That Thinks The Average Mentality Is Something Like 13 Years Of Age, That Never Forgot H.l. Mencken's Notion That Nobody Lost Money Underestimating The Intelligence Of The American People. That's The Horseshit The Establishment Has Always Lived With.