Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was. And if he saw that poor and working people were not at the center of public policy, he would be deeply, deeply upset.

Jesus loves a free black man.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.

The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have, and part of the struggle now in the age of [Barack] Obama is how do we keep alive the legacy of Martin King?