The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

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.

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

I prefer making videos to making music.

It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.

There is no happiness without hard work

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance.

We really wanted it to be an action movie. Those are the movies that we love. We're big fans of like Shane Black movies, when we were younger - me and Evan [Goldberg].