Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people's minds and lives.

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

If you ain't angry, you ain't paying attention.

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth

Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.

The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen as 'the Zen cult'. The cult phenomenon is definitely journalistically 'in'.

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.