That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.

Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.

Education is the motor-force of revolution.

I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I'm back to work tomorrow, and that's the only way you can do it.

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!