I think people now live in an age in which the only thing - they don't think about getting ahead. They think about surviving.

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.

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win, you'll succeed.

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.

Tao can be used by anybody, but it does not beling to anyone. It is just like air; everyone can breathe the air, but no one can claim ownership of the air.

Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.

My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Do it, and I’ll rip your heart out and feed it to your friend. (Julian)

Remember it doesn't take the same minute to make Indomie like it does to make Jollof rice.