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

Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.

One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.