The Plays Raise Issues That Are Ignored

No One Says A Novel Has To Be One Thing. It Can Be Anything It Wants To Be, A Vaudeville Show, The Six O’clock News, The Mumblings Of Wild Men Saddled By Demons.

The Cultural Wars Of The Sixties Are Over. I've Reconciled With Those Who Were My Critics And Opponents Years Ago. I Was At Odds With Some Those Who Were Black Nationalists. Yet When Feminists Attempted To End My Career And Leave Me As Literary Road Kill, It Was The Black Nationalists Who Came To My Rescue.

[david] Mamet Is Another Hypocrite. His Idea Of Black Man Is A Pimp Who Abuses Women, [edmond], Yet His Play Oleanna [1994] Ends With A White Professor Slapping An Uppity Feminist, At Least The Version I Saw At San Francisco's Act.

There Would Be No Rock And Roll Without Ike Turner, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Etc. Fake Ghetto Books And Fake Ghetto Music. Elvis Presley, Whom They Idol, Is Merely A Karaoke Makeover Of James Brown And Chuck Berry.

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.