It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

To be human you must bear witness to justice.

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

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

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

Part of the problem is we had so far to go, given the deep homophobia in our society. But, the movement is very real. The movement is very real.

Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.