There's nothing wrong with changing your mind if you think something's right at a certain moment.

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.

With positive attitude, you can overcome any problem.

... sleep deprivation is an illegal torture method outlawed by the Geneva Convention and international courts, but most of us do it to ourselves.

I find it rather depressing that the people you love most in this world can also be the same exact people you hate with fervor. But it can happen, trust me.It was the f***ing story of my life.

Happy soul, grateful heart.

The Spanish and Cuban people have the same kind of wakes the Irish do. They go on for two or three days and drink a lot of booze and eat a lot of food.

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice

He had an eternity to play that ball... but he took too long over it.

Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.