It takes unbelievable spiritual courage, moral fortitude, to engage in militant nonviolence.

American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am.

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.