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.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

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

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

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

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

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.