We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.

All you have is a gift a to give.

We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.

I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.