This is a false world. It`s been a struggle to try to preserve my sanity and sense of reality taken away by success. I have to fight hard to preserve that sense of reality so as to bring up my children.
If the vacuum formed by Dr. King`s death isn`t filled with concern and understanding and a measure of love, then I think we all are really going to be lost here in this country.
Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can`t help it, but, it is troubling.