Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

If we dont figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, were not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular “hook” upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air.

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.