Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.
“Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.”
“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.”