I read Fanon when I was 20, and his writings moved me, ... It's very important for me to be involved in consciousness-raising.

I read Fanon when I was 20, and his writings moved me. It's very important for me to be involved in consciousness-raising.

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children's mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.

When the hurricane struck, it did not turn the region into a Third World country … it revealed one.

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.