Because Lincoln Is So Closely Identified With

Patriotism Is Best Exemplified Through Auto-critique. When You're Willing To Stand Up Within The Group And Say, 'it Is Wrong For Black People To Be Anti-semitic,' Or 'it Is Wrong For America To Discriminate Against Persons Of African Descent And Made Them Slaves And Based Its Wealth Upon Free Labor,' It's Crucial To Say That.

I Want To Be Black, To Know Black, To Luxuriate In Whatever I Might Be Calling Blackness At Any Particular Time, But To Do So In Order To Come Out On The Other Side, To Experience A Humanity That Is Neither Colorless Nor Reducible To Color.

The Most Ironic Outcome Of The Black Civil Rights Movement Has Been The Creation Of A New Black Middle Class Which Is Increasingly Separate From The Black Underclass.

I Think That The Roots Of Racism Have Always Been Economic, And I Think People Are Desperate And Scared. And When You're Desperate And Scared You Scapegoat People. It Exacerbates Latent Tendencies Toward - Well, Toward Racism Or Homophobia Or Anti-semitism.

My Mom, God Rest Her Soul - She Liked Nicknames. In The Womb She Named Me Skip. There Was Another Black Guy In Piedmont, W.va., And His Name Was Skip. They Called Him Big Skip, And I Was Little Skip.