If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
From Stanley Crouch
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.
I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.
In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.
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