We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

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

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

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

I want to learn something from my atheistic brothers and sisters, even though I'm a Christian. I want to learn something from my right-wing brothers and sisters, even though I'm a progressive. I want to learn something from the elderly, even though I'm middle-aged or tilting toward the elderly. I want to learn especially something from the youth. That's why I spend a lot of time in hip-hop studios.

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.