What time is it on the clock of the world?

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how the resistance of blacks to that enslavement has been the spark plug for so many important developments.

People in Detroit aren't just urban gardening. They're starting a new mode of education. They're trying to give children the education to be "solutionaries" rather than people who are going to get jobs in the system. And that is a huge change, a cultural revolution.

Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.