There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.

I do believe that healing takes place on a number of different levels and that in fact black healing can be deepened by trying to heal across as well as within. But it could be that to call for black and Jewish healing without acknowledging the need for intra-black healing puts the cart before the horse.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.

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.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.