Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

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.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.