I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.

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.

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

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.

Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.

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