So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.

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.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.

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.

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.