"In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poo…"

"The Enlightenment worldview held by Du Bois is ultimately inadequate, and, in many ways, antiquated, for our time. Th…"

"To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. That is, it creates a vision of t…"

"Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous inte…"

"The authority of science … promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the p…"

"I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-f…"

"Free-market fundamentalism trivializes the concern for public interest. It puts fear and insecurity in the hearts of …"

"You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people."

"Justice is what love looks like in public."

"I focus on popular culture because I focus on those areas where black humanity is most powerfully expressed, where bl…"