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.

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.

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

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

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.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.