Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

Black people have been working hard for decades.

To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the wound are, which means you try to tell a story about how it came to be. So you have to engage in some historical interpretation.

Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.

You don't begin by dehumanizing those who are dehumanizing you, because it contributes to the cycle of dehumanization in the world.