Colbert makes me crazy: he's so funny. Plus, he seems like an extraordinarily decent dude.
Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as that first ancestor.
My life has never been defined as Roland Martin, CNN; Roland Martin, TVOne; or Roland Martin, 'Tom Joyner Morning Show.' I'm appreciative of all of those platforms, but I've done all different things. I'm still Roland Martin.
[James] Baldwin "was one of greatest intellectuals of his time. He was an important voice, period, not an important black voice."
He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.
The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.
I guess I understand a public intellectual to be somebody who moves public discourse forward: someone who either says something new or says something that everybody knows to be true but is afraid to express.
Aaron McGruder is a straight-up G. I call him Champ.
Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.
