I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't water, nineteen will die and one will survive.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. The country with one-twentieth of the world's population has one-fourth of those in prison.