I Haven't Been Silent. I Teach, I

My Brother And I Met Several Times During That Weekend Trying To Figure Out What We Were Each Going To Do, And We Met For Breakfast The Morning Of The Sit-in And I Had Decided That I Was Going To Go Get Arrested, And He Decided That He Was Going To Have The Harder Job And Go Tell Our Parents That I'd Been Arrested.

After I Had Known [barack Obama] For A While, I Remember Saying To My Partner, "you Know, This Guy Is Really Ambitious, I Think He Wants To Be Mayor Of Chicago." That Was The Limit Of My Imagination.

Art And Activism Can Be Symbiotic. They Don't Have To Be, Of Course; They Can Also Be Contradictory.

Can We Imagine A Different World? I Can. That's A World Where Work Is Rational, It's In The Common Good, And We're Actually Producing Real Things Rather Than Spinning Our Wheels In Dreams Of Consumer Heaven.

I Think I Am A Radical. I Have Never Deviated From That. By Radical, I Mean Someone Trying To Go To The Root Of Things.