The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?

The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.

It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.

Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.

When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

I'm pro-life. I'll do all I can to see every baby is created with a future and potential. The legislature should do all it can to protect human life.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

I have drunk and seen the spider.