Our dreams must be stronger than our memories.

The liberation of Blacks is not for Blacks only.

Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.

If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.

We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country.

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.