Racism is the most divisive force in our society, so until it is dealt with we cannot hope for much.

We are all, after all, just human beings, and most of us have a lot in common.

I think the two issues, racism and chauvinism, are linked. Look at how much weaker was support for U.S. actions in Iraq among black people.

What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This is a simple but powerful idea.

Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system and making a new one.

You can't take the view of some of the sectarian parties that hard issues can't be confronted when dealing with workers. If you don't confront these issues, what will ever change?

You have to get out in the world and meet folks on their own turf, something which a lot of urban radical intellectuals seldom do.

Most people in this country, while they might not be happy about things, also are woefully ignorant about many things. Sometimes people can learn, but other times they have to be confronted.

Most young people are or will soon enough be workers. They can help to energize and radicalize the workers' movement. And what revolution has ever succeeded without youth?

Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.

The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations.

Dare to dream and yearn to learn to cross the boundary of fears and doubts.

Never take advice from a donkey.

Half of my life passed searching for the evil that makes me to do wrong things, until I found innocent evils trapped in me.

Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.

Perception starts with the eye.

You can have a Great Day, or a Lousy Day; it's totally up to you.

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

No person loving or admiring himself is alone.