Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

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 must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

There is no organizations and institutions that are worthwhile in terms of fighting for and dying for unless there is some individual integrity and character and virtue that is at work within various individuals in those institutions especially their leaders.