I'm Involved In The Work Around Prison

Justice Is Indivisible. You Can't Decide Who Gets Civil Rights And Who Doesn't.

I Think That Has To Do With My Awareness That In A Sense We All Have A Certain Measure Of Responsibility To Those Who Have Made It Possible For Us To Take Advantage Of The Opportunities. The Door Is Opened Only So Far. If Some Of Us Can Squeeze Through The Crack Of That Door, Then We Owe It To Those Who Have Made Those Demands That The Door Be Opened To Use The Knowledge Or The Skills That We Acquire Not Only For Ourselves But In The Service Of The Community As Well. This Is Something That I Guess I Decided A Long Time Ago.

Where Cultural Representations Do Not Reach Out Beyond Themselves, There Is The Danger That They Will Function As The Surrogates For Activism, That They Will Constitute Both The Beginning And The End Of Political Practice.

The Work Of The Political Activist Inevitably Involves A Certain Tension Between The Requirement That Position Be Taken On Current Issues As They Arise And The Desire That One's Contributions Will Somehow Survive The Ravages Of Time.

When Someone Asks Me About Violence, I Just Find It Incredible, Because What It Means Is That The Person Who’s Asking That Question Has Absolutely No Idea What Black People Have Gone Through, What Black People Have Experienced In This Country, Since The Time The First Black Person Was Kidnapped From The Shores Of Africa.