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

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

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.

Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

When you love poor people THAT MUCH, when you love 'working people' THAT MUCH, that makes you the freest man/woman in the country." - Cornel West in explaining that Obama is A fulfillment of MLK's dream not THE fulfillment of MLK's dream