I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

It is poetry that changes everything.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted in hopefulness. As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know.

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.

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.