I Try Not To Take People Who

If Someone Comes To You And Asks For Help, And You Can Help Them, You're Supposed To Help Them. Why Wouldn't You? You Have Been Put In The Position Somehow To Be Able To Help This Person.

We Understand What The Difference Is Between What We Understand And What The Community Understands About What We're Doing Because They Have Supported Us Long Enough For Me To Stay Out Here, While Other People Who Are Doing Other Things Have Not. A Lot Of People Have Trouble Pinning Down What It Is We Do And How. But We Don't Have Any Trouble With That. As Long As That's Their Problem, It's Their Problem.

I Find It Not Just Strange But Almost Ridiculous That People Could Take A Song Like The One I Was Doing And Interpret It Is Corroding Anything. Folks Have The Feeling That Oftentimes If You Don't Talk About Something It Will Go Away.

I Was A Better Writer When I Was Teaching. I Was Constantly Going Over The Basics And Constantly Reminding Myself, As I Reminded My Students, What Made A Good Story, A Good Poem.

You Never Cared Enough To Be Black