Few White Citizens Are Acquainted With Blacks

Writing Poetry Is The Hard Manual Labor Of The Imagination.

I Walked Out On American Gangster: This Evil Piece Of Dreck. Defenders Of This Junk Say That These Movies Give Black Actors Jobs. So Did "birth Of A Nation."

I Don't Know Why People Always Compare Me [ With Amiri Baraka] I Was Never Part Of The Black Arts Repertory Theater Or The Black Arts Movement; People Who Claim That I Was Are Wrong. I Was Downtown. I Was Living In Chelsea When They Were Operating In Harlem.

Joel Chandler Harris, Who Created A Multi Billion Dollar Industry, Everything From His Books, To Disney's "song Of The South" Based Upon The Uncle Remus Stories. He Got His Start By Transcribing The Stories Of Slave Informants. I'm Sure That None Them Got A Dime.

I Was On A Panel With Light Skinned Blacks And A Famous Gay Science Fiction Writer, Who Were Complaining About How Blacks Are Against Gays And Light Skinned Blacks And How Intolerant Blacks Are Of Different Groups. My Position Was That Blacks Were Among The Most Humanistic, Tolerant Groups In The Country And That Across The Street From My House In Oakland Was One Inhabited By White Gays.