I Try To Do What Has Never

My Novels And Poems Are Meant To Be Read Aloud. That's Why Jazz Musicians Have Been Able To Adapt My Stuff.

I Try To Do What Has Never Been Done Before.

American Cultural Institutions Seem So Bent On Preserving The Values Of "western Civilization," The Mythical "whitetown," That Welearn About One Another's Cultures The Same Way We Learn About Sex: In The Streets.

I'm Sure That You Could Go Back And Make A Graph Showing That All The Killings Of Black Males Increased In Times Of Economic Difficulty. As A Matter Of Fact, A Black Man Was Lynched Last Year.

The Last Publicized Center Of American Writing Was Manhattan. Its Writers Became Known As The New York Intellectuals. With Important Connections To Publishing, And Universities, With Access To The Major Book Reviews, They Were Able To Pose As The Vanguard Of American Culture When They Were So Obsessed With The Two Joes--mccarthy And Stalin--that They Were To Produce Only Two Artists, Saul Bellow And Philip Roth, Who Left Town.