You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

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.

Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

I was deeply influenced by the sartorial practices of both preachers and jazz musicians and actually Masha in Act One of Anton Chekhov, my favorite writer's master piece,Three Sisters,when she arrives reflecting on whether they're ever going to get to Moscow, memories of the death of their father, and she's in black, and she says I'm in mourning for the world, saying in part that I have a sad soul and a cheerful disposition.