Behind the Scenes at the 2017 Village Voice Pride Awards

“Hey look, I consider Hank Williams, Captain Marvel, Marlon Brando, The Tennessee Stud, Clark Kent, Walter Cronkite, and J. Carrol Nalsh all influences. Now what is it — please — what is it exactly you people want to know?”

“One of my supreme ambitions is to live to be 120 years old and be able to say I never set foot inside Bloomingdale's”

"More than any other contemporary African-American athlete, his ability to thrive in the pressure cooker of corporate America, while never making any embarrass­ing 'I’m not black, I’m universal' comments or selling his soul rather than just his visage, makes him a role model"

“The most popular Marvel hero has a terrible identity problem, a marked inferiority complex, and a fear of women. He is anti-social, castration­-ridden, racked with Oedipal guilt, and accident-prone”

“Belushi is a satirist not because he's mean or neurotic, he says, but because he likes to make people laugh”

A true journalist, Ward had no favorites — he would call B.S. on anyone and everyone (including himself)