Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in the commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funnelled directly from schools into prison.

Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

War is one of the nation's most honoured virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.

The reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Break the chains in our brains that make us fear.

You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

You either ride with us, or collide with us.

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with me

You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.

I have no patience for anybody who doubts me, none at all.