Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.

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.

Watching 'CSI: Miami' is like watching 'Teen Jeopardy!' or doing the crossword puzzle in 'People' magazine. It makes you feel smart even when you're not.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

My mother used to tell me: "You gotta smile more. Because if you don't smile, the way you look at people, they'll think you're mad at them."

Look at the score at the end of the #game.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

Do not forget in the darkness what you have been promised in the light.

Going from playing a backroom of a bar to a show for 80,000 people...that's pretty wild.