Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

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 take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.

NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick in.

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.

If you compromise with your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.

I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.