Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.

I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.

The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different things. We are biological creatures, we are animals, no doubt, but when you talk about "humando," you're talking about that particular kind of animals who are aware of their impending extinction, who have the capacity to be sensitive to catastrophe and disaster and calamity and profound crisis.

There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.