I have never seen and related to a leftist organizer's outlook on people so thoroughly as Kaba in the section entitled "Hope Is a Discipline":

"You can just care for yourself and your community in tandem, and that can actually be much more healthy for you, by the way. Because all this internalized reflection is not good for people. Yes, think about yourself, reflect on your practice, okay. But then you need to test it in the world; you’ve got to be with people. That’s important. And I hate people! So I say that as somebody who actually is really antisocial. [Wilson and Sonenstein laugh]

I don’t want to socialize in that kind of way, but I do want to be social with other folks as it relates to collectivizing care.”