I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as they related to men.

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

Maybe one reason I had avoided anger was that like a lot of people I had thought there were only two responses to anger: to deny it or to strike out thoughtlessly. But other responses are possible.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.

Fear can have a voice, but it doesn't get a vote.

Shooting an improv-based film is incredibly liberating, exhilarating, and fun, but editing that kind of movie can be difficult for obvious continuity reasons.

To be alive is to be afraid, and much to our advantage in many cases, since alarm often preserves us from danger.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

You cant please all the people all the time.

You must avoid the investigation trap. You can't postpone tough decisions by studying them to death.

It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't see that.