Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they don't have any political instincts - just like the working class in America, apparently - and then suddenly what the hell happened? What was that? They changed the world by changing themselves. Now is that over? No. Is the civil rights movement over? No. These movements have not accomplished what they set out to accomplish.

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

Terrorists destroy randomly.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and Cairo. What they had in common was people who were told, and who believed inside themselves, that they were a certain way, and the society at large believed it.