There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.
I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.
When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?
I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.
I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.
I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.
When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.
Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.
No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery.
It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked.