I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other's fate.

I don't have issues around how I'm identified.