“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

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.

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

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

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.

The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice.

Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

Accept yourself. You don’t have to prove shit to no one except yourself.

Sometimes you have to accept you can’t win all the time.

Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.