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

I had blackouts, fallen out, of course, the death threats, people showing up, putting guns to my wife's head with mask, and people having shot guns in the driveway, looking for me or announcing that I've already died before lectures and sending it through newspaper - sending it to newspaper columns they send my mother and so on. There's a real night side to my particular calling, which is try to bear witness to love and truth.

And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely alive. In fact you're much more alive than these folk walking the streets of New York in crowds, with no intellectual interrogation and questioning going at all.

I don't believe in the elimination of evil. But I believe in fightin' against evil.

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.