Jackie Robinson Is A True Legend.

To Be Compared To Jackie Robinson Is An Enormous Compliment, But I Don't Think It's Necessarily Deserved.

I Don't Very Often Read Novels.

Child Psychologists Have Demonstrated That Our Minds Are Actually Constructed By These Thousands Of Tiny Interactions During The First Few Years Of Life. We Aren't Just What We're Taught. It's What We Experience During Those Early Years - A Smile Here, A Jarring Sound There - That Creates The Pathways And Connections Of The Brain. We Put Our Kids To Fifteen Years Of Quick-cut Advertising, Passive Television Watching, And Sadistic Video Games, And We Expect To See Emerge A New Generation Of Calm, Compassionate, And Engaged Human Beings?

My Mother Was The Most Amazing Person. She Taught Me To Be Kind To Other Women. She Believed In Family. She Was With My Father From The First Day They Met. All That I Am, She Taught Me.

The Impact Of The Black Audience Is Expressing Itself. They Look To Films To Be More Expressive Of Their Needs, Their Lives. Hollywood Has Gotten That Message - Finally.