It's Been Said That No Man Is

African American Music Can't Happen In Germany Or In Italy Or In Mumbai. If America Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth Today, The Greatest Single Cultural Loss Would Be Blues, Jazz, Hip-hop, R&b, Rock-and-roll.

Rural America's Not Coming Back. That Idea Was Lost With The Industrial Revolution.

I Would Be Lying If I Said The Journalism Doesn't Reflect My Own Choices As A Reporter And A Writer: What To Say, What To Emphasize, How To Say It, What Is True Or Untrue.

We Have No Sense Of The Collective Anymore In America. The Response To Katrina Was Proof Positive Of That.

More People Pay Attention To Fiction And To Narrative Than Pay Attention To Journalism. That's Quite Sad. More People Pay Attention To Television Than To Prose. That's Equally Sad, If Not More So.