Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

He was dressed just like on TV, with lots of silver chains and bracelets, ripped jeans, and a black muscle shirt (Which was kind of stupid, since he didn't have any muscles).

Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.

If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.

A good reputation is measured by how much you can improve the lives of others.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

In film as a medium, you're often given a baddie and a goodie and told what to think about them; it's usually a very definite point of view.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.