Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

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.