Ideas like cosmic justice, collective hope, and national redemption had no meaning for me. The truth was in the everything that came after atheism, after the amorality of the universe is taken not as a problem but as a given. It was then that I was freed from considering my own morality away from the cosmic and the abstract. Life was short, and death undefeated. So I loved hard, since I would not love for long.

Ideas like cosmic justice, collective hope, and national redemption had nomeaning for me. The truth was in the everything that came after atheism, afterthe amorality of the universe is taken not as a problem but as a given. It was thenthat I was freed from considering my own morality away from the cosmic andthe abstract. Life was short, and death undefeated. So I loved hard, since I wouldnot love for long.

I see the fight against sexism, racism, poverty, and even war finding their union not in synonymity but in their ultimate goal — a world more humane.

Je savais que ces théories, même relayées par des Noirs, justifiaient la multiplication des prisons, la création des ghettos et des cités, minimisaient l'importance de la destruction du corps noir devant les exigences du maintien de l'ordre. Selon ces théories, la "sécurité" était une valeur supérieure à la justice, peut être même la valeur ultime.