society Quotes

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.'

I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.