Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama] treats them with respect. They get invited to the White House. I say the same thing, he talks to me like I'm a Cub Scout.

The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets the history of big business in a way so we have a very weak welfare state compared to European nation states.

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

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.

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.