As it is, the profusion of commodities is a genuine and powerful compensation for oppression. - Ellen Willis

Art that succeeds manages to evade or transcend or turn to its own purposes the strictures imposed on the artist; on the deepest level it is the enemy of authority, as Plato understood. Mass art is no exception.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

radicals need to recreate a politics that emphasizes our common humanity, to base our social theory and practice on principles that apply to us all.