Our parents are our first oppressors.

You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

The jobs are there, but, particularly for working adults, traditional education just isnt going to cut it. New ways for training that meet the real-life requirements for adults are critically important.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.