People are afraid and when people are afraid when their pie is shrinking they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears assuages anxiety.
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and...
Well certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is...
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They...
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent at...
But you see our society is still trapped in this binary black/white logic...
I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately...
My mom God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me...
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we...
The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a...
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where...
You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is...
I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of...
Don't fear anything for your letters they are burnt one by one and I hope...
I think however that so long as our present economic and national systems...
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home or we...
I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women....
What I think we fear is rapid pronounced and uncontrollable changes to...
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting...
When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did you fear that you'll...