There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

We need to redefine strength in men, not as the power over other people, but as forces for justice.