That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa."

I'm anti-establishment. So all the labels, the reason that I keep joking and rejecting this idea that I'm liberal, well partly that's because I think of myself as a radical, and by that I mean, not even in the terms of Left-Right that you might imagine - but someone who wants to go to the root of problems.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.

I don't regret setting bombs.

In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that. All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.