He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
“I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.”