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

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

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.