I Don't Buy The Whole Mythology Of

When You Go Into A College Of Education You've Got Aspirations Of Making A Difference In People's Lives, Of Loving Children, Of Working With Kids, But None Of That Is Affirmed In Your College Of Education. Then You Go Working In Schools, Especially In Places Like New York City And Chicago That I'm Most Familiar With, And You Find These Huge Aspirations Are Beaten Out Of You In A Very Systematic Way - And Still People Persevere.

I Wanted A Racially Just Society. I Wanted To End Wars. I Wanted To End White Supremacy. I Wanted To Create A World That Was Based On Egalitarianism, Sharing, Racial Justice.

There Was One Moment When J. Edgar Hoover And Us Had The Same Distorted Lens About Who We Were - "a Real Threat," You Know? He Thought So And We Thought So And We Were Buddies In That Regard.

To Be A Human Being Is To Suffer. But It's The Unnecessary Suffering, It's The Suffering That We Visit Upon One Another, That Really Should Be Stopped.

I Know That's A Little Jarring, Coming From A Weatherman, But What I Mean By Being Humble Is Doubting If Your Action Did Anything. So You Have To Open Your Eyes, Act And Doubt. And Then You Have To Repeat For A Lifetime.