"I love rock music, and I love playing electric guitar. It makes me crazy with angry joy, but it hasn't been as accessible a medium [as folk music] for me. But there comes a certain point when you just want to yell about something that pisses you off."

Emily Saliers, Indigo Girl, Mother Jones (May/June 2000)

"People are too busy running around proclaiming 'I am not a racist.' Either they get over their blindness and see the pink elephant, or they'll get run over in a stampede they don't see coming."

Janet Robideau, Native activist, Colorlines (Summer 2000)

"The students don't operate with a logic the intellectuals can understand. They don't have a teleological vision. They don't believe in utopia. They don't have any hope. Their struggle is for today; tomorrow doesn't exist. It's a punk sensibility."

Alejandro Moreno, graduate student organizer, Lingua Franca (July/Aug. 2000)

"To make love means that you have to love and understand love. And that's what the basis of revolution is about. Who ever said that love ain't part of the revolution?"

Stic, rapper, Blu (#8)

"We can think of so many things that are wrong, and keep on hating, but that is like a wheel turning without end. We have to stop at some point and look back and think."

Miriam Makeba, singer and widow of Stokely Carmichael, Bomb (Summer 2000)

"Human beings are like an in-between technology--like an obsolete eight-track cassette deck from the '70s."

Sook-Yin Lee, multimedia artist, Mix (Spring 2000)

"[I had a] bone to pick . . . with all the cultural studies folks who equate culture and politics. They're not equal. They are intimately bound together, but cultural activity does not equate with political action. It can lead to it, but it can also lead away from it--or it can do nothing: The sound and the fury signifying nothing."