I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on. . . By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.
This is a deeply spiritual issue. . . Do we want to spend more time trying to care for our fellow man or do we want to just pursue more virtual reality? That's the issue before us. . and it's being played out in the world of the environment.