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

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

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

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.

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.

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