If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing.

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't be anything about methods or techniques. It would be loving people first.

You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.

You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.

Curiosity is very important I think, and I think too much of education, starting with childhood education, is either designed to kill curiosity or it works out that way anyway.

I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

People who fall in love can fall out of it.

Think about it: send SLASH receive. Email is the frenzied killer of proper communication.

Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into actions the most difficult thing in the world.

One cannot get through life without pain. ... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.