Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

Are you a communist?""No I am an anti-fascist""For a long time?""Since I have understood fascism.

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

Not judging people is the fastest way to peace.

I was afraid of being judged too harshly. But I'd let those fears overwhelm me for far too long.

The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago

This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Call me crazy - I love elk meat!