Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

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.

They no longer wanted to entice anyone

With sense of achievement comes satisfaction… and with satisfaction comes contentment. Contentment is ultimate goal of life.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

If I could have a superpower, I would choose the ability to make people's heart stop, if I just point at them.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Other people's lives are affected by how you are treating yourself and the way in which you are performing.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

I cant immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.