I'm Not The Betting Kind.

A Lot Of The Things That We Think Of As Being Racial Differences Are Really Class Differences In America.

I Was Thinking About Comedy And How Comedy In Many Ways Opens Us Up To Ideas And Really Being Influenced By Richard Pryor And Sort Of The Way He Would Use Comedy To Really Speak About Larger Social Issues.

It Sometimes Is Just The Fear Of Being Misunderstood.

We Grew Up As This Family Of Deniers. And People Who Knew Us For Years Were Stunned When "the Great Santini" Came Out Because We Had This Appearance Of Being This Happy, Large, Smiling Family. We Were Taught To Smile, Put The Best Face Forward. And So When The Book Ended Up - Dad Swatting Us Around The Room, No One Believed Me.

I Think In Particularly With Young Kids Who Don't Have A Lot Of Positive Influences, Pop Culture Almost Becomes A Larger Part Of That Self-discovery And How You Define Yourself.