As A Writer, You Explore All Kinds

I Have Black Guys Who Tell Me They Put My Books On Their Bed Stands To Read At Night Like Something For Guidance Or Information. That Really Pleases Me A Lot. I Think My Work Has Changed Some Things. It's Changed Me.

Currently, U.s. Society Has Been Encouraged By Its Political And Subsidized Mass-media Intelligentsia To View U.s. Life As A Continual "morning In America" Paradise, Where The Only Social Problems Occur In The Inner Cities. Psychologists Call This Denial.

We Learn About One Another's Culture The Same Way We Learn About Sex: In The Streets.

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.

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