I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.

Bandwagons roll through our lives. Its up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.

I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.

It's crazy how we always hate the things closest to us.

You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free.

A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.