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.

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.

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

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.