I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.

One must always forgive another's passion.

You say we worship the sun

I perceived that I wouldn't have to go out and search for what I was supposed to do- it would unfold before me.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

all to no end save beauty the eternal-- So in detail they, the crowd, are beautiful