All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.

I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant.

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.