Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.

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.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

You just have to be careful because social media can begin to affect personal things such as relationships, just to pin point. People have become so entitled as it relates to social media.

May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

You just have to do what suits you, and it doesn't matter if you don't look like everybody else. Be you. That's our gift and we've got to celebrate that.

A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.