This also a comment to John, about memoirs. Yes, I started listening to you, as you describe, as a "Black contrarian" . But my interest in your life would be - what was it about your life, or your way of thinking, that made you so independent of mind, and of voice? As I said it to a friend recently - talking as if bullshit didn't exist - or rather - that it had no hold on you. That's very unusual, I don't have it, and I aspire to it, and I'd like to know how you got it.
This also a comment to John, about memoirs. Yes, I started listening to you, as you describe, as a "Black contrarian" . But my interest in your life would be - what was it about your life, or your way of thinking, that made you so independent of mind, and of voice? As I said it to a friend recently - talking as if bullshit didn't exist - or rather - that it had no hold on you. That's very unusual, I don't have it, and I aspire to it, and I'd like to know how you got it.