Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

Maintain your integrity! Live life in such a way that when another person tells his or her truth, you'll not be committed for blame.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!

The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

I'm open to any kind of situation in a song as long as it touches my heart.

Being driven is not the same as being passionate. Passion is a love for the journey. Drive is a need to reach the destination.

I have over 150 or 200 records recorded. We have so many EP's and LP's. It's just picking the best records to put the best possible album together.