The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use?

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.