There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself, for my students, for the people who hear me. Oh sure, some days you look around at this country and look at the evidence and think, Oh Lord, don't look good. But you keep moving. You gotta keep moving.

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

I love the academy in terms of the life of the mind and the world of ideas. I also love the streets. I love the churches and mosques and synagogues. I love the trade union centers. I love the community centers. I speak regularly at prisons and so forth.