The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things, we're so caught up with our appetites that we don't have a clear distinction about what we need and what we just want. Plus, the decline of trade unions is a factor. When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

Yes, (Bush is a) racist. We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas's governor, Bush led a penitentiary system that executed more people than all the other U.S. states together. And most of the people who died from (the) death penalty were Afro-Americans or Hispanics. (Bush) promoted a Conservative program, designed to eliminate everything Americans had accomplished so far in matters of race and equality.