My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

I’m aware of my actions and responsible for them, so I don’t owe any explanation to anyone.

Surround yourself with people who are better than you in each individual area of business.

of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously. Emerald Green Desiree Holt

The facts are near to deception!

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.

I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

I do not think a similar goal, to attain fame, drove me when I was a child and young woman.

Rio would be my last Olympics.