If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

When ignorance reigns, life is lost...

'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system I was born to rage against 'em

Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past. Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now?

Your anger is a gift.

The classroom's the last room to get the truth.

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

Fools follow rules when the set commands ya...

When you invest your life, you reproduce your life.

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

I don't like to read novelizations of movies.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.

Physically I feel pretty good; that's the main key, is just making sure your body is ready to play every night since you play so many games and I feel like I'm there.

When you write songs, you gotta be like a receiving station: you gotta be aware of what's going on around you. I never know what a song is going to be about before I write it.