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

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

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

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.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

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

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