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

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

Martin Luther King was an extremist of love.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.

It's clear that he was incredibly courageous in his critique of white supremacy, wealth inequality, and imperial power as it relates to war in particular. But it's easy to deodorize Martin King, to sanitize or sterilize him. And I simply want to reveal his radical love and his radical analysis as what they really were.