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.

This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call this system of institutionaliz ed gender roles, so rarely do we name it in everyday speech. This silence promotes denial. And how can we organize to challenge and change a system that cannot be named?

I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

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

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

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