The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples.

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

It would just be nice if we had leaders in Washington who could unequivocally take a stand on behalf of democratic movements in other parts of the world. And even this is true for even Brother Barack Obama.