I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

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.

Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name

My heart is not peripheral to me.