There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

Temptations don't appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.

Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.

What daily healthy intake are you doing for your body? I personally like Shakeology.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

There are movies I've made that I think no celebrations are in order.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything

I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.