Leadership is another word for preparation.

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.

She shared how she had fi nally found God, not in the back of a church with hands held in prayer, but in the back of a police car with hands held in cuffs.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do..

He wished to please everybody, " Franklin later said of Keith, "and having little to give, he gave expectations.

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.