Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

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

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

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.

You don't begin by dehumanizing those who are dehumanizing you, because it contributes to the cycle of dehumanization in the world.