In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a discussion of Benny Goodman but all of them are connected to his overwhelming affection for the art of the music and the fairness it should be allowed to express.

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.

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.

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

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

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