The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

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

You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.