Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

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.

A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones.

...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.

There is a difference between fresh and weird. You never want to throw your reader out of the story. Keep it fresh but natural.

There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.

I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.

There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the Holy Spirit either in our sanctification or healing.

Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.