Rage is fine as long as it doesn't deteriorate into bitterness.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

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

American citizens have been killed abroad by drones with no due process, no accountability, no judicial review.

There is no organizations and institutions that are worthwhile in terms of fighting for and dying for unless there is some individual integrity and character and virtue that is at work within various individuals in those institutions especially their leaders.

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