Joy James's Revolutionary Love is umph-degree love; or love beyond measure. It is anything love. It is love without reckoning. It is love that dares all things, beyond which others may find the spirit-force to survive; to live to fight another day. Such love is also fighting itself, for the sake of ensuring that others may live. --Mumia Abu-Jamal To take the path of Revolutionary Love is to take a risk. It means walking the razor's edge. This is not a politics of the heart, not a politics of charity.

No need for self-love or self-pity--it's enough to know where you stand, to embody that moment 'just before hate' and, with the energy of despair, to ward off the worst. --Houria Bouteldja Rooted in community-activism and the ways in which 'history is always instructive', Joy James is clear that she is 'always thinking about and in the community.' In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love is a beautiful and effective articulation and representation of those commitments. --Kathryn Sophia Belle.