Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

I grew up in a school system . . . where nobody understood the meaning of learning disorder. In the West Indies, I was constantly being physically abused because the whipping of students was permitted.

As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.

You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.