If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.
The dark clouds make the black sea. (Les nuages noirs - Font la mer noire)
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.
I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating.
Then as I got older, I always gravitated towards the hard stuff, Born To Be Wild, then Black Sabbath.
I like to write books where I get a question on the radio, and I don't have an answer for it.
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.
Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.
If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up
