Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.

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.

Don't chase after your thoughts as a shadow follows its object. Don't run after your thoughts. Find joy and peace in this very moment .

In the bush, trust no one you don't know.

Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?

There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view.

Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part.

The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write.

Even the best intentions turn around one day... Nobody's right all the time.

Those of you that think filming is all glamour, you're so wrong! Really, only the premieres are the glitzy bits.