As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.

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

All you have is a gift a to give.

It's true that in reading an interview, I have a little critique of the objectification of women in a [Playboy] magazine that is perceived to doing that.

White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples.

I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've never viewed them in any way as being separable.