If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama] treats them with respect. They get invited to the White House. I say the same thing, he talks to me like I'm a Cub Scout.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.