Our Democratic Richness Arrives When We're Able

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.

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 High Point Of Civilization Is That You Can Hate Me And I Can Hate You But We Develop An Etiquette That Allows Us To Deal With Each Other Because If We Acted Solely Upon Our Impulse We'd Probably Go To War.

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.

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.