We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy.

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.

When you see recurring problems, the methods you’ve used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present does it not tell us what the future will be?

I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It's so rewarding - we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.

Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.

False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

Your happiness is your gift to the world.

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

My brother Dash hit me on the head with five textbooks in a gym bag.