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

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

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

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

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.

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.