My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.

To believe is to become what you believe.

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime, drugs and unemployment, I can't think of a supposedly Black issue that hasn't wasted the original Black target group and then spread like measles to outlying white experience.

I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.