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

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

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

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

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

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.

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.