Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

We live in a world where people are fearful of extremism, but Martin Luther King would say he was always trying to keep the flow of love in place. In that sense, he turned the world on its head.

The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.

Why I can't stand this phrase about I don't have any permanent enemies, any permanent friends, only permanent interests. I can't stand that. It's a matter of principles. What kind of integrity, what kind of morality do you have?

When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

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

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