It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

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

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

The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it.

We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.

Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.