Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.

I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy.