Interrogate yours hidden assumptions

The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that.

There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.