The Rhythm Of Being An

When You Go Into A College Of Education You've Got Aspirations Of Making A Difference In People's Lives, Of Loving Children, Of Working With Kids, But None Of That Is Affirmed In Your College Of Education. Then You Go Working In Schools, Especially In Places Like New York City And Chicago That I'm Most Familiar With, And You Find These Huge Aspirations Are Beaten Out Of You In A Very Systematic Way - And Still People Persevere.

Kill All The Rich People. Break Up Their Cars And Apartments. Bring The Revolution Home, Kill Your Parents, That's Where It's Really At.

Part Of The Fun Of Writing, Touring, Teaching, Is Engaging With Real People About All Of It: What To Do Now, How To Build A Movement, Of Approaches To Teaching, Of Parenting - It's Exciting To Be In That Dialogue.

I Found The Place Where I Was Beaten Bloody Forty Years Earlier And Dragged To Jail And That Made Me Cry. When The Family Came Out, That Made Me Cry, And The Reason I Had A Hard Time Leaving Grant Park Was That To See A Million People Like That, Feeling The Way That Million People Felt, Was So Exhilarating.

Who's The Big Government Guy? These Labels Are Nonsense. And The Tea Party, If You Want To Call Them Working Class, You Know, A Working-class Insurgency From Below, They Are A Mass Of Contradictions; They Don't Have A Single Consistent Viewpoint; But Part Of Their Impulse Is To Be Wary Of Government.