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 it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.

I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.

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

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.