You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

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.

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices.

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

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

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."