I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.

Education is a right, it's a journey, it's a process, and it's something we have to stand for, as hard as it is.

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

Education is the motor-force of revolution.

Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you know, a working-class insurgency from below, they are a mass of contradictions; they don't have a single consistent viewpoint; but part of their impulse is to be wary of government.

I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.

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.