“The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3, 000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.”
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We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
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.
