I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices.

Truth is fine. Absolutely.

I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand white supremacy. I can't stand male supremacy. I can't stand imperial subjugation. I can't stand homophobia.

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

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