Autores:
  • The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.

    "A conversation with Cornel West". Interview with Itabari Njeri, articles.latimes.com. October 22, 1995.