American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

You can't move forward until you look back.

The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

I think in the end, you know, we're just addicted to oil. We've got to overcome that addiction, and we need some serious accountability of big oil, because big oil, like so much of big businesses, has just colonized our government, colonized the regulatory agencies so we can't impose any kind of accountability on them.