We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

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.

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.

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

Insecurity, thy name is teenager.

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.

Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for.

Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out.

Never let your fiend off his leash unless there's lots of room to run (and no people around).

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.