But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

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.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Chase a butterfly and you will discover the joys of wandering into uncharted trails.

The greatest fear of those who rule is not the opposition but not to be taken seriously.

People ask me so many questions.

Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.

Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.

To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.

Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty What justifies the homicide when he dies?

I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing.