“Elegance lies not in the clothes we wear, but in the way we wear them.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance
“There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.”
Standup routines, No Cure for Cancer (1993)
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Context: I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.