In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in America have not come to grips with.
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.
The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.
So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.
If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?
We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.
Social media can be a powerful tool to listen to, engage with and gain access to customers that you would otherwise not be able to connect with.
It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.
That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.
But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
