Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

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.

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

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.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.

We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

Let us make sure that the worship services we plan and conduct present that Truth in all its clarity and beauty and goodness.

I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.

You can't run a without taking risks.

I have no idea what's going on in television because I really don't look at it.

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

What resonates with people is that it feels like you actually are thinking of them.