Occupation: Poet Birth: February 22, 1938
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 ….
I asked Joe Weixlmann why he would print a death threat like that in light of the fact that there are all of these armed ideological nuts wandering a….
How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emerge….
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 mu….
Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they w….
Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug d….
Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters..
Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix..
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies..
We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes.For us, it was not o….
Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech for a brief time and r….
I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a feminist clique at the Times, ….
I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and [Amiri] Baraka took offense ….
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination..
My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the….
I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors jobs. So did "Birth of a ….
I try to do what has never been done before..
I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. Wha….
Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so--called educational system, whichis nothing more tha….
I use non-fiction work written by Whites in my research. It's indispensable. That wasn't the problem. I said that "The Wire" was a cliché! It's like ….
In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure ….