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

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

Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white women, and black men. And they have had to understand themselves. When black women win victories, it is a boost for virtually every segment of society.

It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement.

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.

It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of the movement that was most commodifiable and when we look at the commodification of blackness we're looking at a phenomenon that's very profitable and it's connection with the rise of a black middle class I think is very obvious.