I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.
Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'