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

Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.

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

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.

To be human you must bear witness to justice.

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

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