The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

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

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.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

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

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