Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

He remembers which sisterI like least and askshow she is doing.(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')

Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

What we're hearing from everyone is that they understand that Saddam Hussein is a threat. They understand that he's been a threat for a long time.

Debt gives you the ability to look like you’re winning when you’re not.

It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.

Maybe I was in love, but I was still me, after all.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

I want to bring more gymnastics on television.

In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.