Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
But at the same time you can’t...
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late ’40’s and early ’50’s was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
That’s true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative – these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.