When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit?

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.