Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

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

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

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.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.