I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices.

And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

Why I can't stand this phrase about I don't have any permanent enemies, any permanent friends, only permanent interests. I can't stand that. It's a matter of principles. What kind of integrity, what kind of morality do you have?