The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

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

I can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as a matter of fact, it has nothing to offer them. Suppose they do get a high school diploma that is meaningful. What kind of job is awaiting them. The jobs that used to be available to working class people are not there as a result of the de-industrialization of this economy.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

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

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

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