Top Highlights

• the old adage of having to be twice as good as the white man, half as good as the Chinese guy, and four times as good as the last Negro the supervisor hired before you still holds true.
• Every black male, I don’t care what shade or political persuasion he is, secretly thinks he can do one of three things better than anyone in the world: play basketball, rap, or tell jokes.
• Daddy told his jokes the same way he’d ordered pizza, written poetry, and written his doctoral thesis—in APA format.