Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

If the whole world is a battlefield, then the United States is also a battlefield.

It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

Our culture is a capitalist society right? And so in order to always have the idea of the good life, means something you pay money for. Think of being outside of what you have and own, it always has to be receiving a difference.

I don't want people to be suicidal. I want them to be energized and angry.