"I feel battered by culture shock — an experience that has mainly served to teach me how little I know, and how much I have falsely assumed"
Originally published January 22, 1979
“What made 147th Street so bad was the kids. They had all grown up right in the neighborhood; now they were killing it, and each other.”
Originally published January 15, 1979
"Jeddy Gates was that increasingly rare phenomenon in American life — a legend who has not become a celebrity"
Originally published January 8, 1979
“They were in Harlem because they were the toughest guys the department could find, and it appeared that if anyone could take care of themselves, and me as well, it would be the people in Sixth Homicide.”
Originally published January 2, 1979
“You know, kid, I never thought they were going to get me.”
Originally published December 12, 1977
“When I actually made myself look at Harlem, what I saw was so bizarre that, even with the help of those homicide detectives, I found it bewildering — another country, another planet.”
Originally published December 25, 1978