The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

When you think of 244 years of slavery and 81 years of that finally you are going to be allowed to be part of the pool from which people choose jobs. That's not a substantive kind of move, but it was very important.

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

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.

To be human you must bear witness to justice.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment.