We got to push to give, and one life to live.
Everyone who knew [Barack] Obama from being in Hyde Park knew he was the smartest guy in any room he walked into; a decent, compassionate, lovely person; pragmatic, middle-of-the-road and ambitious.
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. . . . It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
New Jack City' and 'Boyz 'N the Hood' are realities, but movies like 'Strictly Business' are realities, too.
Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
The aura of billions of people coats all experiences like a thick cloud of smog. Just to live on the earth is to live in that smog.
I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does.