Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.

Wealth inequality has increased.

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

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

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.

I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution.