Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in contact with; doing so is the first obligation of a white antiracist.

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

I think for folks of color the key to combatting racism period is a) trusting their instincts and b) solidarity with one another.

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

Violating the 4th Amendment guarantees against illegal searches and seizures is not the way to solve crime problems.

A complaint is a compliment of negativity.

The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the thinking you have done.

For all the secret societies lunatics out there who think they know anything, why don't you chill..We’re ALL guests on Earth, not Management.

Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something's gonna get you.

To me, as a son, Donald Trump wins no matter what.

President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

He had 'deep concerns' with the pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants under consideration by the group, calling it 'profoundly unfair' to legal immigrants.