The evil is so ubiquitous in terms of objectification of all of us, that one can say that almost about any TV and even radio show.

I try to, in my own fallible way, speak the truth.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

There are various forms of weaponry, intellectual weaponry, spiritual weaponry, political weaponry, economic weaponry. Because we are on the battlefield, and there are bullets flying, some symbolic, some literal and the life of the mind is a crucial place where the battle goes on.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed.

What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it.