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

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization.

People don't really think other people are the same.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

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.

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.