What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.

It also makes my father right again. How will I ever soar with the eagles if I'm surrounded by turkeys?

Some people say home is where you come from. But I think it’s a place you need to find, like it’s scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.

Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people

I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback.

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.

Can I bite you here, too?

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.