When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.
Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'
One motivation for the 'Soul Train' awards was the grumbling that all of us in the industry have heard about the way black music tends to be viewed as a secondary phenomenon by the other awards shows.
Black music is too big and too powerful not to have its own awards show.
When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.
I had difficulty working for other people.
