The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.

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

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have to be willing to tell the truth because we're trying to speak about conditions that are being rendered invisible in our prisons and schools in the hood and so forth and so on.