It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

When you think of 244 years of slavery and 81 years of that finally you are going to be allowed to be part of the pool from which people choose jobs. That's not a substantive kind of move, but it was very important.

We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions.

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.

I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.