Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

I have a whole lot of fun in trying to serve others and just keeping it funky, trying to keep it real, trying to ensure that we are able to be ourselves and get beyond these deodorized discourses and deodorized spaces that put on masks.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

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

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

Interrogate yours hidden assumptions