If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.

There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.

In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

I write what I want to read. If I were to write what I know, I'd be staring at a blank page forever.

It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.

Falling in desire with truth and hope is enhancing our soul with a precious love...

We like who we become in response to injustice: it makes it easy to choose a side. Our capacity to care, to get angry, is called forth like some muscle we weren't entirely aware we had.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for.

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

I always try to push myself, even more now because evidently I'm not doing something right. I'm trying to do the little things that count in practice to try and get my job back.

Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard.