"It would be nice, wouldn't it? if we could get comfortable about the problem of freedom. Kant thinks that we can't."

“A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.”

“We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism does not appeal to me at all.”

“Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.45, Penguin

“I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.”

Source : "Q&A: 'Pariah' star Adepero Oduye is on the cups of stardom". Interview with Nigel Smith, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2011.

“Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.”

“We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got north to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan, and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history.”

“To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.”