If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.