The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion.

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.

So, am I some sort of Savior? Not hardly. Save yourself the worry about needing to be saved from anything.

I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

Religion is a light in the fog.

I want my work to be accessible to people.

If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.

Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.

If I hear ‘Karma Chameleon’ one more time, I swear I’m going to find Boy George and make him eat Jesse’s record. What does red, gold, and green have to do with anything anyway? (Gloria)