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

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

I'm a Christian, but I'm not a puritan. I believe in pleasure and orgiastic pleasure has its place, intellectual pleasure has its place, social pleasure has its place, televisual pleasure has its place [in life].

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for non-market values and non-market activity so that love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.