I think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological innovation and productivity that is crucial. But when unregulated, they often generate levels of vast inequality and ugly isolation that makes it difficult for people to relate and connect with one another.

One is that I am a regular, everyday person, you know what I mean. I feel that wherever I am, I really am.

You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.

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

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.

I want to be a jazzman until the day I die. To help keep that motion, momentum and movement going, for myself, for my students, for the people who hear me. Oh sure, some days you look around at this country and look at the evidence and think, Oh Lord, don't look good. But you keep moving. You gotta keep moving.