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I Think There Are Fundamentalists All Over The World. I Think All Religions Have Fundamentalists Who Have Different Interpretations Of Scriptures That Are Very Vague.

In Crash, You've Got A Pathological Cop Who At The End Justifies Police Brutality. He Tells The Naïve, Young Cop That You're Going To End Up The Same As Him. He's The Most Sympathetic Character In The Movie. So, The Naïve Cop Ends Up Murdering This Black Kid And Tries To Cover Up The Evidence. It Sort Of Justifies Police Brutality And The Planting Of Evidence Which Is What Happened In The O.j. Simpson Case.

I Don't Know Why People Always Compare Me [ With Amiri Baraka] I Was Never Part Of The Black Arts Repertory Theater Or The Black Arts Movement; People Who Claim That I Was Are Wrong. I Was Downtown. I Was Living In Chelsea When They Were Operating In Harlem.

I'm Sure That You Could Go Back And Make A Graph Showing That All The Killings Of Black Males Increased In Times Of Economic Difficulty. As A Matter Of Fact, A Black Man Was Lynched Last Year.

I'm Beginning To Believe That Killer Illiteracy Ought To Rank Near Heart Disease And Cancer As One Of The Leading Causes Of Deathamong Americans. What You Don't Know Can Indeed Hurt You, And So Those Who Can Neither Read Nor Write Lead Miserable Lives, Like Richard Wright's Character, Bigger Thomas, Born Dead With No Past Or Future.