American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

American society is still puritanical.

I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.