My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

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

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.