If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.