Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

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.

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

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.

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

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

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