I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

I will not be afraid to let my talent shine.

I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.

While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.

My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.

Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of celebrity in this country leads us away from democratic ways of thinking and into this hero worship. And so of course, one man cannot swoop in and fix everything on his own. It's much more complicated and difficult than that, and progressives in this country since then have had to come to terms with the fact that we need to do more than actually get out of our house and vote. It's an ongoing process to turn the tide.