If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

Be kind to the living.

As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.