Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

People without memory are putty.

What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.

That's what's happening now. The world is being held up a mirror: "All roads lead here. Do you like it?" A lot of people don't like it. A lot of people are saying, "Wait a minute, if our system can produce that, there's something wrong with this system." That opening is ours to seize. It matters how we name it: It's not called Donald Trump. It's called capitalism.

The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.