Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.

The one constant in life is baseball

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.