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

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

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

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

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

We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.

Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.