When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We're going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.

Optimism is evidence-based.

We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.