Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Relax and renew your mind.

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

Resistance is the secret of joy!

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Then we see that the same God is within ourselves.

I want to be able to control things and that's very difficult to do if you're not 100% in a particular language. It makes you uncertain and it makes you nervous.

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority.