"We have to start asking ourselves in our classrooms and in our scholarship and what we do in public is how is what we're Doing going to keep us free that that's the question Will my almost 12 year old son be able to be free or will he be a second-class citizen? We shouldn't push our children and sacrifice our children to show up the failures that we've made You know There's a scripture in the Bible that says the children's teeth sit on edge because the fathers ate sour grapes And so I would like to believe that for future generations Okay, if you have children or not or whatever what are we doing in black studies is going to make sure that we are going to serve the purpose of making sure we have agent of Change that we fight oppression because the the self promoting, you know studying myself It's time out for all that like we got to put our we got to put our shit on the line"