Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the obsession with the personal (inaudible), and personal judgment and have people be concerned about the environment, what a different world we would live in.

Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

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.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.