“I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.”

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.

Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.

I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.

It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia

The howl of self-interest is loud but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.

Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn’t be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I’m one of those scenarios.

Anytime you’re with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man’s back.

I wear black all the time.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.