All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

In 1977, hip-hop literally wasn't outside the boroughs. But I was profoundly aware of the city through films like Saturday Night Fever, The French Connection, and Network. I had a friend who visited New York, and I asked him what it was like. He said, "Oh, it's great. Just wear a coat and don't look anyone in the eye."

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.

In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.