When People Conclude That All Is Futile,

Now The Writing In The Head, I Definitely Do Every Day, Thinking About How I Want To Phrase Something Or How I'd Like To Rephrase Something I've Already Written.

I Wanted To Get To That Aesthetic Proposition That Comes Out Of Learning The Human Elements Of A World, So That Those Notes And Rhythms Mean Something To You Besides Just The Academic Way In Which They Fall In Place.

As You Know From Reading Many Of These Negro Writers, We Don't Deal Too Much With The Discussion Of Democracy And What It Means And How Improvisation Fits In All That.

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.