To Be Told You've Won A Macarthur

African American Music Can't Happen In Germany Or In Italy Or In Mumbai. If America Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth Today, The Greatest Single Cultural Loss Would Be Blues, Jazz, Hip-hop, R&b, Rock-and-roll.

In Baltimore They Can't Do Police Work To Save Their Lives. Now Because Of Freddie Gray They're Not Even Getting Out Of The Car And Policing Corners - They're On A Job Slowdown, Basically. Right Now If The Police Stopped Being Brutal, If We Got Police Shooting Under Control, And The Use Of Excessive Force, If We Have A Meaningful Societal Response To All That Stuff, And The Racism That Underlies It, The Question Still Remains: What Are They Policing, And Why?

Most Of Tv Works This Way: You Try To Get Something Up And Running, And Once You Do, You Just Try To Keep It Going, Because There's A Lot Of Money Involved.

We Are Innately Creative Beings Capable Of Writing A Love Story Worth Living, And We Cannot Afford To Miss Out On The Opportunity To Experience Nourishing Relationships.

There Are Two Americas - Separate, Unequal, And No Longer Even Acknowledging Each Other Except On The Barest Cultural Terms. In The One Nation, New Millionaires Are Minted Every Day. In The Other, Human Beings No Longer Necessary To Our Economy, To Our Society, Are Being Devalued And Destroyed.