"It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing."

“[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.”

“We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared by the working class, the peasantry among whom we work.”

Source : "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

“I was brought up with the sense that I was absolutely no different from my brothers. I went to college thinking I was absolutely no different from the men in college. But that's not true. I'm fundamentally different. The problem was not being able to understand difference and equality at the same time. It's something that we can't seem to comprehend. You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. It's a mistake.”

“Actions are destiny's pen.”

“But then the wine came, one glass and then a second glass. And somewhere during that second drink, the switch was flipped. The wine gave me a melting feeling, a warm light sensation in my head, and I felt like safety itself had arrived in that glass, poured out from the bottle and allowed to spill out between us.”

“Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.240, University of Chicago Press

“Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.”

Source : Source: www.aims.ca

“When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.”