To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
“No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.”
“Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.”