I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

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

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 love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it's a matter of embracing their humanity, allowing them to choose in such a way that they are in the driver's seat regarding their lives.