I Think Somehow I Got A Sense

In One Question You Are Expressing A World Of Opinion. Because It Is You Who Thinks That America Has Been Mistakenly Starting These Conflicts. I Happen To Agree With You, And I Will Repeat What Your Question Suggested...we Have Mistakenly Gotten Into One Fracas After Another. Why We Do That [united States Has Insisted On Keeping Up A String Of Enemies, And The Wars Associated With Creating Those Enemies], I Think It's Because We're Afraid To Look In The Mirror And Understand Who We Are.

We Did An Episode On Good Times Which Came Out Of A Newspaper Article About The Incidence Of Hypertension In Black Males Being Higher Than Whites, And Increasing. So We Did A Show In Which James, The Father On Good Times, Had Hypertension.

You Know, You Throw Rocks In The Lake And Scientists Will Tell You You're Raising The Level Of The Lake, But All You Get To See Is The Ripple.

I Started By Writing, With My Partner Ed Simmons, A Monologue For Danny Thomas, That He Performed At Ciro's Nightclub In Los Angeles.

We Had Two African American Writers [eric Monte And Michael Evans] On The Show ['good Times'] That Knew Cabrini Green Inside And Out, And That's Why We Set It There.