I like to be multi-contextual, which is much more important than being multicultural.

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.

You're trying to just leave the world a little better.

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

The capitalist culture of consumption... does not provide meaningful sustenance for large numbers of people.

In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very much like Jesus - to the least of these, to the weak, to the vulnerable. That includes poor whites and poor browns, as well as the poor in black ghettos.