A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue.

Wealth inequality has increased.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.

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.

But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.

The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.