I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

You only need to move your body to the rhythm of the music.

A man who speaks truth is always surrounded by haters, while the rest who who admire him seldom stay in his company!

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

You are never too old or too broken. It is never too late to begin, or to start all over again.

The happiest I ever am is spending time with a group of really good friends. That's all I aspire to in life, really.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.