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

We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

Justice is what love looks like in public.

There used to be corporations that produced products. Now there are just banks that produce deals, hedge-fund-driven banks and derivatives and those things.

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

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.