You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.

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

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

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.

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

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

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.