When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow as well as white, we need to push toward integrated schools.

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.

The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.

confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder