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.
“I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.”
“Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.”