Sublime

Many non-Black Americans looked down on Black addicts in revulsion—but too many Black folk looked down on the same addicts in shame.

Win came to see me with a question. I will never forget his words: “I love my father and my grandfather and the other men in my life. I appreciate what they have given me. But I don’t want to be them. How can I not be them?” I had waited all my teaching career for Win. He had been in my courses and those of my colleagues where a Being beyond the

We must join the resistance by making solidarity with those who struggle for life in the face of death.

We have many enemies to Black African survival.

South African Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu describes ubuntu as … the essence of being human. It speaks of the fact that my humanity is caught up and is inextricably bound up in yours. I am human because I belong. It speaks about wholeness, it speaks about compassion. A person with ubuntu is welcoming, hospitable, warm and generous,

I will send a draft of the book to you when I think it’s done. I will take out some of what you say needs to be taken out. I will not ignore your questions about my weight. I will not punish myself. I will not misdirect or manipulate human beings, regardless of their age, especially those human beings who love me enough to risk being misdirected or