The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.

When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.