When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period.

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

Cincinnati like so many other cities, we know that so many of our schools, when it comes to public schools, are still de facto segregated racially. It has to do with residential segregation. It has to do with James Crow, Jr., which is at work, de facto rather than legally so that some of the integration is taking place among more and more well-to-do.

So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and human beings. And that is a deep moral and spiritual issue, which can of course be backed up by Civil Rights Commissions which enforce the laws against any form of discrimination.

It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.