Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

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.

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

People don't really think other people are the same.

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

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

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.