You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, tha...

A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true na...

I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black An...

It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sound...

You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, w...

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for econom...

I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, an...

People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. A...

Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed w...

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone...

Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that,...

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old h...