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- "A point that I make that a lot of people don't really get because they ..."
- "All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones ..."
- "All the people who want to be anti-West, they always take Qaddafi's side, as though ..."
- "As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much ..."
- "Because violence was the common reaction of greatest intensity, a new level of it became ..."
- "Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public ..."
- "But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of ..."
- "But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested ..."
- "Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable ..."
- "Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap. "
- "I also try to discuss the idea of democracy and the question of what it ..."
- "I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black ..."
- "I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I ..."
- "I don't know of anybody who literally memorizes everything that they've written. "
- "I remember very distinctly when I first read Schuyler in American Opinion thirty or thirty-five ..."
- "I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human ..."
- "I was looking at this guy Snoop Dogg on MTV; the level of intellectual sluggishness ..."
- "I worked under Jayne Cortez at the Watts Repertory Theatre Company and Studio Watts, she ..."
- "If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway. "
- "If youj're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you ..."
- "In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody ..."
- "It is not, therefore, surprising that the Oklahoma City bomber and the Unabomber would find ..."
- "Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's ..."
- "Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I ..."
- "Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately. "
- "Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the ..."
- "Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less ..."
- "People don't really think other people are the same. "
- "Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police ..."
- "Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. "
- "The biggest problem we have today is that kids are not inspired by popular culture. "
- "The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on ..."
- "The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor ..."
- "The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate ..."
- "The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your ..."
- "There's this obsession with the bottom being the best. So that's why, to get to ..."
- "This and the many other gangster films that formed a trend helped create the ethos ..."
- "Through him I began to look at broader things, not denying race, but recognizing that ..."
- "Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. "
- "Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout ..."
- "What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going ..."
