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

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.

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

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.