Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

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.

Negative actions cannot create a positive life.

My heart is really pounding, " I said. "That's how you know you're having fun.

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

I got so much food spit back in my face when my kids were small, I put windshield wipers on my glasses.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

I think it's important how you spend your time. I try to make sure that I'm growing.

I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.

I have been maturing as a teacher.

I've got about $30,000 in chips, not near enough.