All you have is a gift a to give.

Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to learn they were white. An Irish peasant coming from British imperial abuse in Ireland during the potato famine in the 1840s, arrives in the United States. You ask him or her what they are. They say, "I am Irish." No, you're white. "What do you mean, I am white?" And they point me out. "Oh, I see what you mean. This is a strange land."

Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.

White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.

Justice is what love looks like in public.