Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

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.

To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.