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

And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

We are who we are because somebody loved us.