Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided. . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.
My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.
I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.
All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is. . . He must have models with which to agree. . . or outright oppose. . . for Nature seems to remain silence.
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
Alejandro Amenábar has a unique way of approaching movies and thinking about something which was new to me. It was different. I have a lot of respect for him so I just took a gamble.
Budget cuts if you're not rich, tax cuts if you are. Less money for those who don't have any and more to those who do. That's how President Fredo says we're going to get out of the giant deficit hole he's dug. You can't put it any more simply. Rich people richer. Poor people poorer.
Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.