Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that's fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

You're trying to just leave the world a little better.

The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.