Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

One of the things I understood from early on was that art was a symbol of systemic inequity.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends.

So whatever you want to do, just do it... Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

One act of violence takes four generations to heal.