Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

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

Interrogate yours hidden assumptions

When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the orphan, the widow, the poor, the working people, the gay brother, the lesbian sister, the transgender, the black people.

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.