I think that rather than saying that Occupy Wall Street has died, we can say that they're in the process of understanding what the long march through alternative institutions might mean.

In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.

To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives, and taken away, to see the rich just accumulating more and more wealth. I mean, it seems to me that there has to be a point where you have to say, 'No, this has to stop.'

Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits of a social order are shared in an equitable and just manner.

At the same time, I've never been afraid of death or the concept of death.

America has a strange relationship with its racial memory. Death has always been a constant companion of black people.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.