My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

Courage is a decision you make to act in a way that works through your own fear for the greater good as opposed to pure self-interest. Courage means putting at risk your immediate self-interest for what you believe is right.

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.