The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate.

Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters.

Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.