I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible.

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

There's nothing wrong with changing your mind if you think something's right at a certain moment.

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

Some people handle the truth carelessly Others never touch it at all.

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

He didn't flinch, but in his soul he did.

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

Today's society wants to skip the process. And I hate that