Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

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

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

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.

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.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

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