Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

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.

Your heart is so precious to be mistreated by idiots in this world, you deserve better

They say if the love is true, then it’s easy. But that’s false. Love is complicated. It’s sticky. It’s bliss and it’s a mix of emotions. It’s not easy.

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.

Don't say "The last one there is a rotten egg": unless you're absolutely sure there's a slow kid behind you.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.

I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years. Disney has updated them, and made them accessible for us.

One can run away from anything but oneself.

I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.