People have been unhappy for a long time about the two-party system.

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.

We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.

If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.

People need appreciation from more persons than they need love from one person.

Hopefully America will forgive me.

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with...

I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.

Sometimes a relationship is what falls cause it's not fair that, that person has to fit inside your life or you have to fit inside that person's life.

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.

Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)