American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

I'm a Christian. I believe that greatness has to do with the quality of love shown to the least of thy brethren and the quality of service to those who are catching hell. When you look at it in that sense, I'd say America has had great moments, but I wouldn't call it a great nation. I don't think there have been any great nations in the history of the world, because in every nation you find poor people being subjugated. So, I see the term "great nation" as a contradiction, as an oxymoron.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

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

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.