Wealth inequality has increased.

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

I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have to be willing to tell the truth because we're trying to speak about conditions that are being rendered invisible in our prisons and schools in the hood and so forth and so on.

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.

liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.

A rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better than you found it.

So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.