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.

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth

Black people have been working hard for decades.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.

Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.