The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.

The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

Control healthcare and you control the people

Never let a crisis go to waste

History is a relay of revolutions.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors and they don't deserve to hold elective office in this country.

We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.