When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

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.

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

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

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

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.

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