As A Black Woman, My Politics And

I'm No Longer Accepting The Things I Cannot Change...i'm Changing The Things I Cannot Accept.

My Name Became Known Because I Was, One Might Say Accidentally The Target Of State Repression And Because So Many People Throughout The Country And Other Parts Of The World Organized Around The Demand For My Freedom.

Imprisonment Has Become The Response Of First Resort To Far Too Many Of Our Social Problems.

My Idea Of Philosophy Is That If It Is Not Relevant To Human Problems, If It Does Not Tell Us How We Can Go About Eradicating Some Of The Misery In This World, Then It Is Not Worth The Name Of Philosophy. I Think Socrates Made A Very Profound Statement When He Asserted That The Raison D'etre Of Philosophy Is To Teach Us Proper Living. In This Day And Age 'proper Living' Means Liberation From The Urgent Problems Of Poverty, Economic Necessity And Indoctrination, Mental Oppression.

Walls Turned Sideways Are Bridges.