There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.