The bearers of fables are very welcome.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.

The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

Today, together, let us repeat as our slogan that all trace of violence must disappear from this earth, then the sun will be honey-colored and music good to hear.

Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

Remember. Or, failing that, invent.

I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

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All life is One Life.

I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

The germs of all truth lie in the soul, and when the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without as the flower responds to the sun, giving it form for heat and color for light.

I’m the one who requires a nice scratch behind my ears, and then I’ll tap my toe, and that’ll be fine.

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.

Of course I can climb it. I'm practically a progidy in PE," I pointed out. "The question is, can you, Mr Smoker?

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

Apart from Love, which is not a human emotion, of all the rest my last words would best read: It's all for the experience.