I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after

Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.

The most radical thing I ever did was to stay put.

The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.

I think that deep in our hearts we know that our comforts, our conveniences are at the expense of other people.

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

Not all monsters are filled with darkness.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occa

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.

I was out-niggered, and I will never be out-niggered again.

Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.