Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.

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.

It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.

Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.

You exist! Be ambitious!