I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.
Anybody who claims that they know where this whole thing is all going is just lying.
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution, but a dreaming revolution.
Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.
I'm my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable nighttime conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.