You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth that's the American Cycle. You know awakening tragic horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story again and again.
Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought 'This guy is very cool.' I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination by itself would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.