If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades it's meaning. - bell hooks

I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.

The heart of justice is truth telling, seeing ourselves and the world the way it is rather than the way we want to be.

Whether or not any of us become racists is a choice we make. And we are called to choose again and again where we stand on the issue of racism at different moments in our life.