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 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.

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

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

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

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.