Is it more important that you, as a white male, read my work and learn from it, or what you call me? I think it's more important that you read my work, reflect on it, and allow it to transform your life and your thinking in some way.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation.

Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.