I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

I raised four kids in six years.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

there is you and you.this is a relationship.this is the most important relationship.- home

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no better than we and has in fact come nearer to us as a human being.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.