The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.

Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

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.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

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