Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We name more and more streets….

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that l….

I think we are obsessed in the U.S. with the personal, in ways that blind us to more important issues of life. I just think if we could take all the ….

You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to share it with you. But you also have to know what yo….

I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that….

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them..

...move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective ….

Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Bl….

Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for ….

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity..

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine..

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an imp….

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant explo….

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the ….

Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily bec….

Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar….

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Criti….

Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving..

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my wo….

Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having r….

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept t….