An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.
I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.
Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.
I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.
Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.
Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.
By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.
I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.
Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?
Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.
Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.
My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.
A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
