I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

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.

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.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.