"I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, a jazzman in the world of ideas."

"I'm a revolutionary intellectual, not just an academic."

"The American empire is crumbling from within. And it’s not just economic, it’s spiritual, it’s moral."

"We need to recover the best of the American democratic tradition, which is a tradition of dissent, of protest, of resistance."

"To be a revolutionary is to love life so much that you are willing to die for it."