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.

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

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

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

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

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.

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.