Say What?

“If anyone had told me in 1969 that George Clinton and Al Green would be two of my three favorite rock and rollers of the ’70s my only response would have been ‘Who?’ Which is why I’m not going to try and foretell the future now.”

“The Stones hired us to act as security for $500 worth of beer. That Mick Jagger, he used us for dupes.”

Nixon, a buttoned-down Quaker, was the antithesis of the counterculture that most of the albums trumpeted

“I guess she was per­fect for him — they could beat each other up every night and nobody’d mind. They had real fights.”

“At the center of the criticism is the chief artic­ulator of Bush’s imperial presidency,” we reported in 1992, “the man who wrote the legal rationale for the Gulf War, the Panama invasion, and the officially sanctioned kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad.”

“For contemporary Afro-American professionals and intellectuals, the Harlem of legend is at best a Utopian cultural myth.”