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

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

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.

what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas.