I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

If you listen to the debate, [Barack Obama] and [John] McCain said the same thing about gay rights.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.