The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

Black people have been working hard for decades.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].