I work with brands that I personally connect with or personally use. For example, I was already driving the Suzuki Hayabusa long before I started endorsing Suzuki.

Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

I know that anthrax is a huge problem, up in, for example, Harlem, where I've done some work with the Harlem children.