If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

Whoever find the goodness of grace, departs from wicked acts of evil.

The sea never dries for it has so many friend

It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

Being faithful doesn’t mean you are fearless. It just means that your faith is greater than your fear.

Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out.

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture.

I come prepared with the white suit and stethoscope, Listen to your heartbeat, delete beep beep BEEP. Your insurance is high, but my price is cheap.

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.