When A Violent Minority That Crosses Color

The High Point Of Civilization Is That You Can Hate Me And I Can Hate You But We Develop An Etiquette That Allows Us To Deal With Each Other Because If We Acted Solely Upon Our Impulse We'd Probably Go To War.

Popular Culture Tells You That Schools And Parents Don't Know What's Going On, The Police Are Dogs, Politicians Are All Liars And Scum, And Any Crime That's Not Committed By The Mafia Is Done By The Cia.

Louis Armstrong, Who Learned To Be In Exquisite Dress, Came From The Bottom, And He's Not A Trash Can.

In America, We Have To Learn To Be Patient Enough To Figure Out What Somebody Is Saying. Somebody Might Actually Be Saying Something.

I Also Wanted To Do Something That I Hadn't Really Seen In Almost Any Black Novels, Which Was A Complex Love Story In Which Both People Were Extremely Intelligent And Talented And Understood A Lot Of Things And Were Still At Odds Getting It Together.